root@surf:/srv/git# ls|grep tsel rätsel.git root@surf:/srv/git# ls|grep tsel|xxd 0000000: 72c3 a474 7365 6c2e 6769 740a r..tsel.git. Despite this, and <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> in gitweb's HTML response. the actual page (http://git.smurf.noris.de/?o=age in this case) sends "rätsel" with ISO-8859-1 encoding.