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diff --git a/lib/git/objects/fun.py b/lib/git/objects/fun.py
index e56ef8fe..e73e93b0 100644
--- a/lib/git/objects/fun.py
+++ b/lib/git/objects/fun.py
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ def tree_to_stream(entries, write):
mode_str = mode_str[1:]
# END save a byte
+ # here it comes: if the name is actually unicode, the replacement below
+ # will not work as the binsha is not part of the ascii unicode encoding -
+ # hence we must convert to an utf8 string for it to work properly.
+ # According to my tests, this is exactly what git does, that is it just
+ # takes the input literally, which appears to be utf8 on linux.
+ if isinstance(name, unicode):
+ name = name.encode("utf8")
write("%s %s\0%s" % (mode_str, name, binsha))
# END for each item