Can't commit due to encoding error.

[Deleted user]

I've tried to do the welcome task to learn how to commit files.

It turns out I'm unable to do that. After clicking Commit a message pops up:

Failed to detect original file encoding. Cannot save commit with unknown encoding

No matter what text I paste I always get the same message.

[Christopher Mancuso]

I had the same error and it appears that the encoding issue was in the filename field. This happened when I copy/pasted from the example which likely bought over non UTF-8 characters. Try clearing and then typing in the filename manually.

[Karthik V]

This worked. I changed the name of the file and then it fixed.

[Muhammad Ramzan]

Please try this 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/How-to-set-the-text-encoding/qaq-p/358268

[Deleted user]

I'm not sure how it is supposed to help me. They talk about a bug that is not yet fixed.