Re: [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names

Jakub Narębski [off-list ref] writes:

Writing test for this would not be easy, and require some HTML
parser (WWW::Mechanize, Web::Scraper, HTML::Query, pQuery,
... or low level HTML::TreeBuilder, or other low level parser).

Hmph.  Is it more than just looking for a specific run of %xx we
would expect to see in the output of the tree view for a repository
in which there is one tree with non-ASCII name?

quoted

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index a9f57d6..f1414e1 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl

@@ -7138,7 +7138,7 @@ sub git_tree {
        my @entries = ();
        {
                local $/ = "\0";
-               open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "ls-tree", '-z',
+               open my $fd, "-|encoding(UTF-8)", git_cmd(), "ls-tree", '-z',
                        ($show_sizes ? '-l' : ()), @extra_options, $hash
                        or die_error(500, "Open git-ls-tree failed");

Or put

                   binmode $fd, ':utf8';

like in the rest of the code.

I expect a patch to do so and can forget about this thread myself,
then, OK?

Thanks all for digging this to the root.