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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Cannot add utf8 path to repository ","articleBody":"Running the code below on a Linux machine with PythonGit 1.0.1 fails, but works with PythonGit 0.3.2 RC1\n\n**Python version: 2.7.10**\n\n**Output when using PythonGit 1.0.1:**\n1.0.1\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"corpustools/test/test_git.py\", line 11, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    r.index.add(['ø.txt'])\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/index/base.py\", line 780, in add\n    self.write(ignore_extension_data=not write_extension_data)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/index/base.py\", line 213, in write\n    self._serialize(stream, ignore_extension_data)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/index/base.py\", line 180, in _serialize\n    write_cache(entries, stream, extension_data)\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/index/fun.py\", line 132, in write_cache\n    write(path.encode(defenc))\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)\n\n**Output when using PythonGit 0.3.2 RC1**\n0.3.2 RC1\n\nThis is the version that is installed by the distribution (Kubuntu 15.10)\n\n``` python\n# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-\nimport git\nimport testfixtures\n\nprint git.__version__\n\ntempdir = testfixtures.TempDirectory(ignore=['.git'])\ntempdir.makedir('orig/smj/ficti/sub')\ntempdir.write('orig/smj/ficti/sub/ø.txt', 'content of ø')\n\nr = git.Repo.init(tempdir.path)\nr.index.add(['orig'])\nr.index.commit('Added orig and prestable')\n\ntempdir.cleanup()\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/albbas","@type":"Person","name":"albbas"},"datePublished":"2015-07-29T16:11:23.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/331/GitPython/issues/331"}