Non-ASCII characters displayed incorrectly in Windows CMD when running 'git log' in version 2.12.1

[sobolevsv]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  git version 2.12.1.windows.1 64-bit

$ git --version --build-options

git --version --build-options
git version 2.12.1.windows.1
built from commit: 2c6cf4e
sizeof-long: 4
machine: x86_64

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

Windows 10 64bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

default

One of the following:

type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

CMD and Git Bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git log

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

comments in russian language

• What actually happened instead?

in Git Bash comment are shown correctly, but in CMD I see someting like that
<87><8E> <81>

before I upgraded to 2.12 version, russian comments were shown correctly in CMD.

[shiftkey]

before I upgraded to 2.12 version, russian comments were shown correctly in CMD.

@sobolevsv which version were you previously using?

[sobolevsv]

Git-2.10.1-64-bit

[fourpastmidnight]

A very similar issue was reported recently on #1087. I wonder if anything in that issue would be if help? There's also #1053, #1036, and #945. Try #1087 first though, because it looks very similar to what you're experiencing.

[sobolevsv]

thanks, yep, I have the same problem as on #1087.
"git --no-pager log" outputs correctly, but
"git log" does not

[gwenner]

It's the less pager that causes this.

I found a workaround in setting the LESS environment variable to "FrX" (default "FRX" is used otherwise).

[dscho]

Closing this as stale.