diff --git a/src/IDF/Plugin/SyncGit/Serve.php b/src/IDF/Plugin/SyncGit/Serve.php
index 499a1ba..842797b 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Plugin/SyncGit/Serve.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Plugin/SyncGit/Serve.php
@@ -230,6 +230,24 @@ class IDF_Plugin_SyncGit_Serve
         }
         Pluf_Log::debug(array('IDF_Plugin_Git_Serve::initRepository', 
                               'Added post-update hook.', $fullpath));
+        // Configure the core.quotepath option
+        $quotepath = (Pluf::f('git_core_quotepath', true) == true) ? 'true' : 'false';
+        $out = array();
+        $res = 0;
+        exec(sprintf(Pluf::f('idf_exec_cmd_prefix', '').
+                     Pluf::f('git_path', 'git').' config -f %s/config --add core.quotepath %s',
+                     escapeshellarg($fullpath),
+                     escapeshellarg($quotepath)
+                    ),
+             $out, $res);
+        if ($res != 0) {
+            Pluf_Log::warn(array('IDF_Plugin_Git_Serve::initRepository', 
+                                 'core.quotepath configuration error.', 
+                                 $quotepath));
+            return;
+        }
+        Pluf_Log::debug(array('IDF_Plugin_Git_Serve::initRepository', 
+                              'core.quotepath configured.', $quotepath));
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist b/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
index e76c4b3..9e0ed8a 100644
--- a/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
+++ b/src/IDF/conf/idf.php-dist
@@ -255,6 +255,12 @@ $cfg['allowed_scm'] = array('git' => 'IDF_Scm_Git',
                             'mtn' => 'IDF_Scm_Monotone',
                             );
 
+# Specific git config
+# The core.quotepath is configured on new repository
+# True -> All characters upper than 0x80 will be escape (default)
+# False -> Characters is print directly, enable accented character in a UTF-8 shell
+# $cfg['git_core_quotepath'] = false;
+
 # Set to true when uploaded public keys should not only be validated
 # syntactically, but also by the specific backend. For SSH public
 # keys, ssh-keygen(3) must be available and usable in PATH, for