git log output encoding issues on Windows 10 command prompt

Question

Problem

How to make git log command output properly displayed on windows command prompt?

Example

As you can see I can type diacriti

Answer 1

I use git bash on WIN10. As for me, 4 settings make the appearance as my expectation.

• env setting. Add LC_ALL=C.UTF-8,LESSCHARSET=UTF-8 to PATH globally.

• git config. git config --global i18n.logOutputEncoding utf-8.

• git bash setting. Set Options-> Text-> Character set to utf-8. Or set locale and Character set both to default. It is smart enough to choose the correct encoding.

Done.