Re: gitweb on kernel.org and UTF-8
From: Kay Sievers <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:13
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:59:16PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Junio C Hamano wrote:quoted
Is it possible that the UTF-8 check in gitweb running on kernel.org machine is somehow too strict? The following two commits in git.git repository are not showing properly. I have a track record of getting peoples' names wrong, so I double checked my commit objects, and as far as I can tell, all of them are encoded in UTF-8 properly (or at least I can view what I expect if I throw raw bytes from the commit objects at my Firefox): c3df8568424684bbcc7df7722eb3ec34bdae8b2d This is from Yoshifuji-san; the third character in author name field is mangled. bb931cf9d73d94d9940b6d0ee56b6c13ad42f1a0 This is from Lukas Sandstr*m; o with Umlaut on top is showing a ?. Incidentally, the blob that records recent version of Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt has his name in it, which has the same ? problem, but "plain" option shows his name correctly in UTF-8. Interestingly enough, my name spelled in Japanese (Documentatino/git-lost-found.txt) is intact. Am I getting a VIP treatment somehow?I think it's missing a "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';" somewhere... For what it's worth, I looked at both the above examples and the binary encoding in the git repository is undoubtedly correct; the two characters are U+82F1/E8 8B B1 (英) and U+00F6/C3 B6 (ö) respectively, both of which are 100% valid UTF-8.
Should be fine now. The escapeHTML() garbled the utf8 "ö", and the decode() failed that. Thanks, Kay