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Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2007, 17:02 UTC
Message-ID
<200712031802.55514.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20071203163856.GA24269@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Martin Koegler wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:06:48AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> writes:
>>> Monday 03 December 2007 Tarihinde 12:14:43 yazm??t?:
>>>> Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> writes:
>>>>> -	eval { $res = decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK); };
>>>>> -	if (defined $res) {
>>>>> -		return $res;
>>>>> -	} else {
>>>>> -		return decode($fallback_encoding, $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
>>>>> -	}
>>>>> +	eval { return ($res = decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK)); };
>>>>> +	return decode($fallback_encoding, $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
>>>>>  }
> 
> This version is broken on Debian sarge and etch. Feeding a UTF-8 and a latin1
> encoding of the same character sequence yields to different results.
[...]
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> eval { $res = decode_utf8(...); }
> if ($@) 
>      return decode(...);
> return $res
> 
> or
> 
> eval { $res = decode_utf8(...); }
> if (defined $res)
>       return $res;
> else
>     return decode(...);
> 
> show the same (wrong) behaviour on Debian sarge. They do not always
> decode non UTF-8 characters correctly, eg.
> #öäü does not work
> #äöüä does work
> 
> On Debian etch, both versions are working.

I don't know enough Perl to decide if it is a bug in gitweb usage of decode_utf8, if it is a bug in your version of Encode, or if it is bug in Encode.

Send copy of this mail to maintainers of Encode perl module.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Benjamin CloseDec 3, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 3, 2007
  3. Ismail DönmezDec 3, 2007
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2007
  5. Martin KoeglerDec 3, 2007
  6. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2007
  7. Benjamin CloseDec 3, 2007
  8. Ismail DönmezDec 3, 2007
  9. Benjamin CloseDec 3, 2007
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2007
  11. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
  12. Martin KoeglerDec 4, 2007
  13. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
  14. Martin KoeglerDec 4, 2007
  15. Martin KoeglerDec 4, 2007
  16. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
  17. Martin KoeglerDec 4, 2007
  18. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
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  20. Martin KoeglerDec 4, 2007
  21. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
  22. Ismail DönmezDec 4, 2007
  23. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2007
  24. Wincent ColaiutaDec 4, 2007

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