1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/parsing.c b/parsing.c
index f37c49d..c9e4350 100644
--- a/parsing.c
+++ b/parsing.c
@@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ const char *reencode(char **txt, const char *src_enc, const char *dst_enc)
         if (!txt || !*txt || !src_enc || !dst_enc)
                 return *txt;
 
-        tmp = reencode_string(*txt, src_enc, dst_enc);
+        /* no encoding needed if src_enc equals dst_enc */
+        if(!strcasecmp(src_enc, dst_enc))
+                return *txt;
+
+        tmp = reencode_string(*txt, dst_enc, src_enc);
         if (tmp) {
                 free(*txt);
                 *txt = tmp;
@@ -160,6 +164,10 @@ struct commitinfo *cgit_parse_commit(struct commit *commit)
                 }
         }
 
+        /* if no special encoding is found, assume UTF-8 */
+        if(!ret->msg_encoding)
+                ret->msg_encoding = xstrdup("UTF-8");
+
         // skip unknown header fields
         while (p && *p && (*p != '\n')) {
                 p = strchr(p, '\n');
@@ -189,14 +197,12 @@ struct commitinfo *cgit_parse_commit(struct commit *commit)
         } else
                 ret->subject = xstrdup(p);
 
-        if (ret->msg_encoding) {
-                reencode(&ret->author, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-                reencode(&ret->author_email, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-                reencode(&ret->committer, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-                reencode(&ret->committer_email, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-                reencode(&ret->subject, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-                reencode(&ret->msg, PAGE_ENCODING, ret->msg_encoding);
-        }
+        reencode(&ret->author, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
+        reencode(&ret->author_email, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
+        reencode(&ret->committer, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
+        reencode(&ret->committer_email, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
+        reencode(&ret->subject, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
+        reencode(&ret->msg, ret->msg_encoding, PAGE_ENCODING);
 
         return ret;
 }