Merge branch '41677-branch-name-omitted-due-to-bad-utf-8-conversion-by-gitaly-ref-handler' into 'master'

Resolve "Branch name omitted due to bad UTF-8 conversion by Gitaly ref handler"

Closes #41677

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!16243

(cherry picked from commit f7afb14c)

5152cc3b Fix a bug where charlock_holmes was used needlessly to encode strings