Re: gitweb: charset problem
- From
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
- Date
- Oct 24, 2005, 13:56 UTC
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- <200510241356.j9ODuAHn005060@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
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- <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org>
Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> wrote:
> 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?
I'd be /very/ wary of usernames that aren't plain ASCII, just lovercase letters and digits, not starting with a digit, at most 8 characters long. I've seen more than enough hard-to-debug funnies in the most surprising places otherwise.
> 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.
I believe the Emperor Penguin decreed messages have to be ASCII, or else UTF-8. Please don't add to the mess by using non-portable encodings!
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