From: Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:18:39 GMT
Subject: gitweb: charset problem
Message-ID: <20051024071839.GB4608@schottelius.org>

Hello!

gitweb (my $version =           "247";) seems to send utf-8 as meta tag encoding
(<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>).
The problem is that the name of the user "HansjOErg" (OE is the german umlaut)
is in iso8859-1 in /etc/passwd.
This is guessed, but it does not look like utf-8, as it's a one byte encoding:

00007b0: 3031 323a 3130 303a 4861 6e73 6af6 7267  012:100:Hansj.rg

What would be the correct way to fix that? Change the username to utf-8?
(Is this possible without causing problems in other programs?)
Or tell gitweb that it should convert non-UTF-8 to UTF-8?

But we also have another problem: Sometimes we have umlauts in the commit messages.
Those are also displayed incorrectly. When I switch to iso-8859-1 encoding in mozilla,
the characters in the username and in the commit message are ok.

Greetings,

Nico

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