diff --git a/NSFileHandleExt.m b/NSFileHandleExt.m
index 0e2412c..9302c99 100644
--- a/NSFileHandleExt.m
+++ b/NSFileHandleExt.m
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@
 		switch (*(buffer + bytesReceived - 1)) {
 			case '\n':
 				buffer[bytesReceived-1] = '\0';
-				return [NSString stringWithCString: buffer];
+				return [NSString stringWithCString: buffer encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 			case '\r':
 				bytesReceived--;
 		}
 	}       
 	
 	buffer[bytesReceived-1] = '\0';
-	NSString *retVal = [NSString stringWithCString: buffer];
+	NSString *retVal = [NSString stringWithCString: buffer  encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 	free(buffer);
 	return retVal;
 }
diff --git a/PBEasyPipe.m b/PBEasyPipe.m
index b2d994c..06a74d1 100644
--- a/PBEasyPipe.m
+++ b/PBEasyPipe.m
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 {
 	NSFileHandle* handle = [self handleForCommand:cmd withArgs: args inDir: dir];
 	NSData* data = [handle readDataToEndOfFile];
-	NSString* string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
+	NSString* string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 	if ([string hasSuffix:@"\n"])
 		string = [string substringToIndex:[string length]-1];
 	
diff --git a/PBGitCommit.m b/PBGitCommit.m
index 247dfd7..44f4c45 100644
--- a/PBGitCommit.m
+++ b/PBGitCommit.m
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 		return details;
 
 	NSFileHandle* handle = [self.repository handleForCommand:[@"show --pretty=raw " stringByAppendingString:self.sha]];
-	details = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[handle readDataToEndOfFile] encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding];
+	details = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[handle readDataToEndOfFile] encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 
 	return details;
 }