[PATCH] gitweb: Fix chop_str not to cut in middle of utf8 multibyte chars.
From: Anders Waldenborg <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:37
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Without this fix at least author name in short log may cut in middle of a multibyte char. When the result comes to esc_html to_utf8 is called again, which doesn't find valid utf8 and decodes using $fallback_encoding making it even worse. Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <redacted> --- gitweb/gitweb.perl | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 2facf2d..8308e22 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl@@ -866,6 +866,10 @@ sub chop_str { my $add_len = shift || 10; my $where = shift || 'right'; # 'left' | 'center' | 'right' + # Make sure perl knows it is utf8 encoded so we don't + # cut in the middle of a utf8 multibyte char. + $str = to_utf8($str); + # allow only $len chars, but don't cut a word if it would fit in $add_len # if it doesn't fit, cut it if it's still longer than the dots we would add # remove chopped character entities entirely