diff --git a/src/IDF/Commit.php b/src/IDF/Commit.php
index 964b4ec..50c9402 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Commit.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Commit.php
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ class IDF_Commit extends Pluf_Model
      */
     public static function toUTF8($text)
     {
+        $enc = 'ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, JIS, EUC-JP, SJIS';
         $ref = $text;
         if (is_array($text)) {
             $ref = $text[0];
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ class IDF_Commit extends Pluf_Model
         if (Pluf_Text_UTF8::check($ref)) {
             return $text;
         }
-        $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($ref, mb_detect_order(), true);
+        $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($ref, $enc, true);
         if ($encoding == false) {
             $encoding = Pluf_Text_UTF8::detect_cyr_charset($ref);
         }
diff --git a/src/IDF/Scm/Git.php b/src/IDF/Scm/Git.php
index f684e3f..acb57ed 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Scm/Git.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Scm/Git.php
@@ -402,14 +402,12 @@ class IDF_Scm_Git extends IDF_Scm
      * Parse the log lines of a --pretty=medium log output.
      *
      * @param array Lines.
-     * @param int Number of lines in the headers (3)
      * @return array Change log.
      */
-    public static function parseLog($lines, $hdrs=3)
+    public static function parseLog($lines)
     {
         $res = array();
         $c = array();
-        $hdrs += 2;
         $inheads = true;
         $next_is_title = false;
         foreach ($lines as $line) {
diff --git a/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php b/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
index cb4c992..9baf254 100644
--- a/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
+++ b/src/IDF/Tests/TestGit.php
@@ -40,12 +40,22 @@ class IDF_Tests_TestGit extends UnitTestCase
 
     }
 
-    public function testGitCache()
+    /**
+     * parse a log encoded in iso 8859-1
+     */
+    public function testParseIsoLog()
     {
-        $repo = substr(dirname(__FILE__), 0, -strlen('src/IDF/Tests')).'/.git';
-        $repo = '/home/loa/Vendors/linux-git/.git';
-        $git = new IDF_Scm_Git($repo);
-        $git->buildBlobInfoCache();
-        //$git->getCachedBlobInfo(array());
+        $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);
+        $titles = array(
+                        'Quick Profiler entfernt',
+                        'Anwendungsmenu Divider eingefügt',
+                        'Anwendungen aufäumen'
+                        );
+        foreach ($log as $change) {
+            $this->assertEqual(array_shift($titles),
+                               IDF_Commit::toUTF8($change->title));
+        }
+
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/IDF/Tests/data/git-log-iso-8859-1.txt b/src/IDF/Tests/data/git-log-iso-8859-1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c42a5ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/IDF/Tests/data/git-log-iso-8859-1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+commit 11531a9dbc64a65150f2f38fbea7cef9d478a123
+Author: unknown <a@(none)>
+Date:   Fri Jul 3 01:44:11 2009 +0200
+
+    Quick Profiler entfernt
+
+commit 11531a9dbc64a65150f2f38fbea7cef9d478a123
+Author: unknown <a@(none)>
+Date:   Wed Jul 1 15:51:22 2009 +0200
+
+    Anwendungsmenu Divider eingefügt
+
+commit 11531a9dbc64a65150f2f38fbea7cef9d478a123
+Author: unknown <a@(none)>
+Date:   Wed Jul 1 15:05:41 2009 +0200
+
+    Anwendungen aufäumen
+
+