diff --git a/t/t3901-i18n-patch.sh b/t/t3901-i18n-patch.sh
index 31a5770b34..55c8a2f576 100755
--- a/t/t3901-i18n-patch.sh
+++ b/t/t3901-i18n-patch.sh
@@ -54,10 +54,13 @@ test_expect_success setup '
 	git add yours &&
 	git commit -s -m "Second on side" &&
 
-	# the second one on the side branch is ISO-8859-1
-	git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
-	# use author and committer name in ISO-8859-1 to match it.
-	. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-8859-1.txt &&
+	if test_have_prereq NOT_MINGW
+	then
+		# the second one on the side branch is ISO-8859-1
+		git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
+		# use author and committer name in ISO-8859-1 to match it.
+		. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-8859-1.txt
+	fi &&
 	test_tick &&
 	echo Yet another >theirs &&
 	git add theirs &&
@@ -119,7 +122,7 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase (U/L)' '
 	check_encoding 2
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'rebase (L/L)' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'rebase (L/L)' '
 	# In this test we want ISO-8859-1 encoded commits as the result
 	git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
 	git config i18n.logoutputencoding ISO8859-1 &&
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase (L/L)' '
 	check_encoding 2 8859
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'rebase (L/U)' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'rebase (L/U)' '
 	# This is pathological -- use UTF-8 as intermediate form
 	# to get ISO-8859-1 results.
 	git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
@@ -159,7 +162,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cherry-pick(U/U)' '
 	check_encoding 3
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'cherry-pick(L/L)' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'cherry-pick(L/L)' '
 	# Both the commitencoding and logoutputencoding is set to ISO-8859-1
 
 	git config i18n.commitencoding ISO8859-1 &&
@@ -189,7 +192,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cherry-pick(U/L)' '
 	check_encoding 3
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'cherry-pick(L/U)' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'cherry-pick(L/U)' '
 	# Again, the commitencoding is set to ISO-8859-1 but
 	# logoutputencoding is set to UTF-8.
 
diff --git a/t/t4201-shortlog.sh b/t/t4201-shortlog.sh
index 97fcb31d6e..565c020c45 100755
--- a/t/t4201-shortlog.sh
+++ b/t/t4201-shortlog.sh
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ test_expect_success 'output from user-defined format is re-wrapped' '
 	test_cmp expect log.predictable
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'shortlog wrapping' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'shortlog wrapping' '
 	cat >expect <<\EOF &&
 A U Thor (5):
       Test
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ EOF
 	test_cmp expect out
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'shortlog from non-git directory' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'shortlog from non-git directory' '
 	git log HEAD >log &&
 	GIT_DIR=non-existing git shortlog -w <log >out &&
 	test_cmp expect out
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ $DSCHO (2):
 
 EOF
 
-test_expect_success 'shortlog encoding' '
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW 'shortlog encoding' '
 	git reset --hard "$commit" &&
 	git config --unset i18n.commitencoding &&
 	echo 2 > a1 &&
diff --git a/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh b/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
index cb390559f9..a6e73d0635 100755
--- a/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
+++ b/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ author $SJIS_NAME
 summary $SJIS_MSG
 EOF
 
-test_expect_success \
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW \
 	'blame respects i18n.commitencoding' '
 	git blame --incremental file | \
 		egrep "^(author|summary) " > actual &&
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ author $EUC_JAPAN_NAME
 summary $EUC_JAPAN_MSG
 EOF
 
-test_expect_success \
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW \
 	'blame respects i18n.logoutputencoding' '
 	git config i18n.logoutputencoding eucJP &&
 	git blame --incremental file | \
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ author $UTF8_NAME
 summary $UTF8_MSG
 EOF
 
-test_expect_success \
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW \
 	'blame respects --encoding=UTF-8' '
 	git blame --incremental --encoding=UTF-8 file | \
 		egrep "^(author|summary) " > actual &&
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ author $UTF8_NAME
 summary $UTF8_MSG
 EOF
 
-test_expect_success \
+test_expect_success NOT_MINGW \
 	'blame respects --encoding=none' '
 	git blame --incremental --encoding=none file | \
 		egrep "^(author|summary) " > actual &&