# Git log encoding

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/git-log-encoding/2358
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [March 17, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/git-log-encoding/2358 "2015-03-17T12:09:01Z")
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### Author: ![stefaan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@stefaan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stefaan)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/git-log-encoding/2358/1 "2015-03-17T12:09:01Z")

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I'm using the _Git Show Commit Logs_ action to get the commit messages since the latest build. These message are stored in utf-8 in git, however, finalbuilder treats it as ansi text.This causes some character to be displayed incorrectly:

| Git | Finalbuilder |
| --- | --- |
| é | +® |
| ë | +½ |

I'm capturing the output from the command with an output monitor. Is there a way to tell finalbuilder that the text is utf-8 encoded?

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### Author: ![stefaan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@stefaan](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stefaan)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/git-log-encoding/2358/2 "2015-03-24T03:38:05Z")

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I found a way to let git convert the text to ansi. I added the option _--encoding="CP850"_. This converts the text to code page 850, which is used in Western Europe.

In the US this should probably be CP437. It depends on the Windows Region settings.