option '--use-client-spec'.  See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above.
        This variable is a boolean, not the name of a p4 client.
 
+git-p4.pathEncoding::
+       Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating OS.
+       Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Use this config to tell git-p4
+       what encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used
+       to transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows
+       often uses “cp1252” to encode path names.
+
 Submit variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 git-p4.detectRenames::
 
             text = regexp.sub(r'$\1$', text)
             contents = [ text ]
 
+        if gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding"):
+            relPath = relPath.decode(gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding")).encode('utf8', 'replace')
+        elif self.verbose:
+            try:
+                relPath.decode('ascii')
+            except:
+                print (
+                    "Path with Non-ASCII characters detected and no path encoding defined. "
+                    "Please check the encoding: %s" % relPath
+                )
+
         self.gitStream.write("M %s inline %s\n" % (git_mode, relPath))
 
         # total length...
 
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Clone repositories with non ASCII paths'
+
+. ./lib-git-p4.sh
+
+UTF8_ESCAPED="a-\303\244_o-\303\266_u-\303\274.txt"
+ISO8859_ESCAPED="a-\344_o-\366_u-\374.txt"
+
+test_expect_success 'start p4d' '
+       start_p4d
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Create a repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths' '
+       (
+               cd "$cli" &&
+               ISO8859="$(printf "$ISO8859_ESCAPED")" &&
+               echo content123 >"$ISO8859" &&
+               p4 add "$ISO8859" &&
+               p4 submit -d "test commit"
+       )
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'Clone auto-detects depot with iso8859-1 paths' '
+       git p4 clone --destination="$git" //depot &&
+       test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
+       (
+               cd "$git" &&
+               UTF8="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED")" &&
+               echo "$UTF8" >expect &&
+               git -c core.quotepath=false ls-files >actual &&
+               test_cmp expect actual
+       )
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths with git-p4.pathEncoding' '
+       test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
+       (
+               cd "$git" &&
+               git init . &&
+               git config git-p4.pathEncoding iso8859-1 &&
+               git p4 clone --use-client-spec --destination="$git" //depot &&
+               UTF8="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED")" &&
+               echo "$UTF8" >expect &&
+               git -c core.quotepath=false ls-files >actual &&
+               test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+               echo content123 >expect &&
+               cat "$UTF8" >actual &&
+               test_cmp expect actual
+       )
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'kill p4d' '
+       kill_p4d
+'
+
+test_done