Failure on non-ascii chars in error messages #651
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Libgit2 partially forwards OS error message texts.
I.e. the following error message (from C.giterr_last()) is generated on my german windows 10, when a fetch() is done but the remote repo is unavailable:
failed to send request: Das Zeitlimit f\xc3\xbcr den Vorgang wurde erreicht.\r\n.
To avoid that a UnicodeDecodeError due to the contained 'ü' (encoded as '\xc3\xbc') is raised the error message must be interpreted as UTF-8.
The solution is not be necessary on linux/osx as they return always ascii (as far as I know).
Thus this solution will not change the behaviour on linux/osx but fix windows issues.