Try os.fsdecode

Author: jdavid

pygit2/errors.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def check_error(err, io=False):
     # Error message
     giterr = C.git_error_last()
     if giterr != ffi.NULL:
-        message = ffi.string(giterr.message).decode('utf8',errors='surrogateescape')
+        message = ffi.string(giterr.message).decode('utf8', errors='surrogateescape')
     else:
         message = f'err {err} (no message provided)'
 

pygit2/utils.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def maybe_string(ptr):
     if not ptr:
         return None
 
-    return ffi.string(ptr).decode('utf8', errors='replace')
+    return os.fsdecode(ffi.string(ptr))
 
 
 def to_bytes(s, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'):