'git log output encoding issues on Windows 10 CLI terminal

Problem

How to make git log command output properly displayed on Windows CLI terminal?

Example

As you can see I can type diacritical characters properly but on git log the output is somehow escaped. According to UTF-8 encoding table the codes between angled brackets (< and >) from the output correspond to the previously typed git config parameters.

I have tried to set LESSCHARSET environment variable to utf-8 as sugested in one of the answers for similar issue but then the output is garbled:

I know .git/config is encoded properly with utf-8 as it's handled by gitk as expected.

Here is locale command output if necessary

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

EDIT:

The output is the same also in pure git-bash:

so I believe the problem is shell independent and relates to Git or its configuration itself.

Solution 1:^[1]

If anyone is interested in the PowerShell equivalent of set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8, that is:

$env:LC_ALL='C.UTF-8'

However this works only for the current session. To make it permanent, two possibilities:

create an environment variable named LC_ALL with the value C.UTF-8
or put $env:LC_ALL='C.UTF-8' in your $Profile file

Solution 2:^[2]

I am using Git via Powershell Core v7.0.3 inside Windows Terminal on Windows 10.

I have been browsing through answers and tried many of them. The solutions that worked for me were:

Change a Git setting: git config --global core.pager 'less --raw-control-chars'
Add $env:LC_ALL = 'C.UTF-8' to the current Powershell profile

These solutions both work separately. I chose to use the Git command as the problem seems to be related to Git, and Powershell profile stays cleaner.

Solution 3:^[3]

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.

Solution 4:^[4]

I had such problem on Linux. And the problem was that I did not generated locales. So my output of locale was cantaining all "C" letters, without UTF-8. To solve this, I uncommented en_US.UTF-8 and ru_RU.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen. Then I run localectl set-locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 and rebooted. And relogined to the system. After that ciryllic was displayed normally.

Solution 5:^[5]

I had to use the windows powershell command prompt instead of the default one (Windowkey + X)

Solution 6:^[6]

git config --global core.pager 'less --raw-control-chars'
 
#Or

git config --global core.pager 'more'

Sources

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Solution 4	Ashark
Solution 5	john ktejik
Solution 6	DEV Tiago FranÃ§a

'git log output encoding issues on Windows 10 CLI terminal

Problem

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