Use uni2ascii if available to create more readable file names when commits messages have non-ascii characters.

Author: rev22

README.md

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Patches can be readily edited, shared with others and applied in a new order.
 
 Patches are created using ```git format-patch```, and can be applied using ```git am```, in addition to ```git-uncommit```
 
+Patches are given readable file names extracted from your commit messages.
+
 ## Comparison with related Git commands
 
 ```git stash``` can sometimes be used for similar purposes as ```git-uncommit```, the differences are:
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ Patches are created using ```git format-patch```, and can be applied using ```gi
 
 In a Unix or Linux system, you can quickly install ```git-recommit``` and ```git-uncommit``` by copying the files to ```/usr/local/bin```.
 
+Installing ```uni2ascii``` will help ```git-uncommit``` create better filenames for patches, when your commit messages have non-ascii characters.
+
 ## Author and licensing terms
 
 ````

git-uncommit

@@ -29,8 +29,16 @@ die() {
     exit 1
 }
 
+toascii() {
+    if which uni2ascii >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	uni2ascii -qeB
+    else
+	cat
+    fi
+}
+
 namecommit() {
-    (git show "$1"|git patch-id|head --bytes=7; git show "$1"|head -n5|tail -n1)|sed -E "; s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/ /g; s/^ //; s/ $//; s/ /-/g"|head --bytes=40|tr A-Z a-z|sed "s/-$//"
+    (git show "$1"|git patch-id|head --bytes=7; git show "$1"|head -n5|tail -n1)|toascii|sed -E "; s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/ /g; s/^ //; s/ $//; s/ /-/g"|head --bytes=40|tr A-Z a-z|sed "s/-$//"
 }
 
 branchname() {