Re: [PATCH/RFCv2 (version B)] gitweb: Allow UTF-8 encoded CGI query parameters and path_info

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

Gitweb tries hard to properly process UTF-8 data, by marking output
from git commands and contents of files as UTF-8 with to_utf8()
subroutine.  This ensures that gitweb would print correctly UTF-8
e.g. in 'log' and 'commit' views.

Unfortunately it misses another source of potentially Unicode input,
namely query parameters.  The result is that one cannot search for a

I think two lines should suffice instead of the above two paragraphs.

        Gitweb forgot to turn query parameters into UTF-8. This results in
        a bug that one cannot search for a

string containing characters outside US-ASCII.  For example searching
...

The remainder explains the problem and the solution very well modulo minor
typos.

Noticed-by: Michał Kiedrowicz [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narębski <redacted>
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We can add "Tested-by:" to this now.  Will queue.

Thanks.