diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 2c2b9b1205..6f2ff22a45 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -33,5 +33,6 @@ Justin Terry (VM) <juterry@microsoft.com> Justin Terry (VM) via Qemu-devel <qemu
 
 
 # Also list preferred name forms where people have changed their
-# git author config
+# git author config, or having utf8/latin1 encoding issues.
 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
+Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>