Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix the author initials in blame for non-ASCII names

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Kyle J. McKay [off-list ref] wrote:

On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:13, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

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+       binmode $fh, ':utf8';

What happens if the author name is written in ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 in
the actual commit object itself?

I'm pretty sure I've seen this where older commits have a ISO-8859-1 author
name and then newer commits have a UTF-8 version of the same author's name.

In fact, in the git repository itself, look at commit 0cb3f80d (UTF-8) and
commit 7eb93c89 (ISO-8859-1) to see this in action.

Well, then you have a problem, though it is only with old history (before
introduction of "encoding" header in commit object).

Better and more complete solution would be to use to_utf8() function
instead of 'utf8' layer, which when finding invalid UTF-8 sequence uses
$fallback_encoding (by default "latin1", i.e. ISO-8859-1) instead.


In my TODO list is creating PerlIO layer ':utf8-with-fallback' which would
replace all those to_utf8() calls...

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Jakub Narebski