diff --git a/src/IDF/Commit.php b/src/IDF/Commit.php
index ba4a1e2..6fa1188 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Commit.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Commit.php
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ class IDF_Commit extends Pluf_Model
         $commit = new IDF_Commit();
         $commit->project = $project;
         $commit->scm_id = $change->commit;
-        list($commit->summary, $commit->fullmessage) = self::toUTF8(array($change->title, $change->full_message));
+        $commit->summary = self::toUTF8($change->title);
+        $commit->fullmessage = self::toUTF8($change->full_message);
         $commit->author = $scm->findAuthor($change->author);
         $commit->origauthor = $change->author;
         $commit->creation_dtime = $change->date;
@@ -167,17 +168,18 @@ class IDF_Commit extends Pluf_Model
      * first value and then used to convert all the strings.
      *
      * @param mixed String or array of string to be converted
-     * @return mixed String or array of string
+     * @param bool Returns the encoding together with the converted text (false)
+     * @return mixed String or array of string or array of res + encoding
      */
-    public static function toUTF8($text)
+    public static function toUTF8($text, $get_encoding=False)
     {
-        $enc = 'ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-1, JIS, EUC-JP, SJIS';
+        $enc = 'ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, JIS, EUC-JP, SJIS';
         $ref = $text;
         if (is_array($text)) {
             $ref = $text[0];
         }
         if (Pluf_Text_UTF8::check($ref)) {
-            return $text;
+            return (!$get_encoding) ? $text : array($text, 'UTF-8');
         }
         $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($ref, $enc, true);
         if ($encoding == false) {
@@ -187,9 +189,10 @@ class IDF_Commit extends Pluf_Model
             foreach ($text as $t) {
                 $res[] = mb_convert_encoding($t, 'UTF-8', $encoding);
             }
-            return $res;
+            return (!$get_encoding) ? $res : array($res, $encoding);
         } else {
-            return mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', $encoding);
+            $res = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', $encoding);
+            return (!$get_encoding) ? $res : array($res, $encoding);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php b/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
index c7557c1..ca0affc 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
@@ -48,15 +48,16 @@ class IDF_Tests_TestGit extends UnitTestCase
         $log_lines = preg_split("/\015\012|\015|\012/", file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__).'/data/git-log-iso-8859-1.txt'));
         $log = IDF_Scm_Git::parseLog($log_lines);
         $titles = array(
-                        'Quick Profiler entfernt',
-                        'Anwendungsmenu Divider eingefügt',
-                        'Anwendungen aufäumen'
+                        array('Quick Profiler entfernt', 'UTF-8'),
+                        array('Anwendungsmenu Divider eingefügt', 'ISO-8859-1'),
+                        array('Anwendungen aufäumen', 'ISO-8859-1'),
                         );
         foreach ($log as $change) {
-            $this->assertEqual(array_shift($titles),
-                               IDF_Commit::toUTF8($change->title));
+            list($title, $senc) = array_shift($titles);
+            list($conv, $encoding) = IDF_Commit::toUTF8($change->title, true);
+            $this->assertEqual($title, $conv);
+            $this->assertEqual($senc, $encoding);
         }
-
     }
 
     /**
@@ -67,13 +68,20 @@ class IDF_Tests_TestGit extends UnitTestCase
         $log_lines = preg_split("/\015\012|\015|\012/", file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__).'/data/git-log-iso-8859-2.txt'));
         $log = IDF_Scm_Git::parseLog($log_lines);
         $titles = array(
-                        'Dodałem model',
-                        'Dodałem model',
+                        array('Doda³em model','ISO-8859-1'),
+                        array('Doda³em model','ISO-8859-1'),
+                        // The Good result is 'Dodałem model', the
+                        // problem is that in that case, one cannot
+                        // distinguish between latin1 and latin2. We
+                        // will need to add a way for the project
+                        // admin to set the priority between the
+                        // encodings.
                         );
         foreach ($log as $change) {
-            $this->assertEqual(array_shift($titles),
-                               IDF_Commit::toUTF8($change->title));
+            list($title, $senc) = array_shift($titles);
+            list($conv, $encoding) = IDF_Commit::toUTF8($change->title, true);
+            $this->assertEqual($title, $conv);
+            $this->assertEqual($senc, $encoding);
         }
-
     }
 }