gitpython fetch get chinese named branch get encoding error

Question

Python version 3.11.3 When I use gitpython, my codes like below

os.environ["PYTHONIOENCODING"] = "utf-8"
os.environ["PYTHONUFT8"] = "on"

repo = Repo(repo_path)
remote = repo.remote()
remote.fetch()

if there is a branch named with Chinese like "测试分支", it will throw error

git.exc.CommandError: Cmd('<stderr-pump>') failed due to: UnicodeDecodeError(''gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xad in position 54: illegal multibyte sequence')

I know it's an encoding problem, I've already set PYTHONUTF8=1 and PYTHONIOENCODING='utf-8',but it doesn't work.

Does fetch method have any params like encoding='utf-8'?
How could I use fetch with utf-8?
Why does it auto choose gbk?

progmatico · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-16 08:26:48Z

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Tried newest Gitpython, fetch doesn't throw the error no more. However, remote().fetch().name and other parts remain GBK encoding.

So far from what I can try, the best to walk around this is to: str(bytes(remote().fetch().name,'gbk'), encoding='utf-8')

Update: Suppose this error only happens in Windows. In order to make GitPython not to use gbk as default codec, you can change Windows settings: inside Time and languages -> Languages and areas -> Manage language settings -> Management tab -> None Unicode programme and language -> Change -> Check Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 to support global language support and restart. Which should work afterwards.

edited Oct 16, 2023 at 8:26

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