1 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/parsing.c b/parsing.c
index f37c49d..151c0fe 100644
--- a/parsing.c
+++ b/parsing.c
@@ -103,10 +103,17 @@ const char *reencode(char **txt, const char *src_enc, const char *dst_enc)
 {
         char *tmp;
 
-        if (!txt || !*txt || !src_enc || !dst_enc)
+        if (!txt)
+                return NULL;
+
+        if (!*txt || !src_enc || !dst_enc)
+                return *txt;
+
+        /* no encoding needed if src_enc equals dst_enc */
+        if(!strcasecmp(src_enc, dst_enc))
                 return *txt;
 
-        tmp = reencode_string(*txt, src_enc, dst_enc);
+        tmp = reencode_string(*txt, dst_enc, src_enc);
         if (tmp) {
                 free(*txt);
                 *txt = tmp;
@@ -160,6 +167,10 @@ 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 +200,12 @@ 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;
 }