From b46aa97f9dfeef1084fdc687d8f067a513584db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramzan Bekbulatov <bekbulatov.ramzan@ya.ru>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:39:48 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Use utf-8 for encoding

Fix for: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/issues/761
---
 gitdb/utils/encoding.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitdb/utils/encoding.py b/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
index 4d270af..d8fd59a 100644
--- a/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
+++ b/gitdb/utils/encoding.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     text_type = unicode
 
 
-def force_bytes(data, encoding="ascii"):
+def force_bytes(data, encoding="utf-8"):
     if isinstance(data, bytes):
         return data