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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Exception if GIT_COMMITTER_NAME contains UTF-8 encoded Umlaut","articleBody":"If I run the python script using gitpython with this env var:\n\nexport GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=\"Thomas Müller\"\n\nI get this exception:\n\n```\n\nError\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/foo_eins_d/src/scmtools/scm/tests/test_git.py\", line 25, in test_git_status\n    repo.index.commit('initial commit')\n  File \"/home/foo_eins_d/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/index/base.py\", line 900, in commit\n    head, author=author, committer=committer)\n  File \"/home/foo_eins_d/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/commit.py\", line 349, in create_from_tree\n    new_commit._serialize(stream)\n  File \"/home/foo_eins_d/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/commit.py\", line 392, in _serialize\n    altz_to_utctz_str(self.committer_tz_offset))).encode(self.encoding))\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128)\n```\n\nVersion: GitPython==0.3.5\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/guettli","@type":"Person","name":"guettli"},"datePublished":"2015-01-19T10:16:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/237/GitPython/issues/237"}