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Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue

From
IDIsmail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Date
Dec 3, 2007, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID
<200712040020.26773.ismail@pardus.org.tr>
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<47547930.5070603@clearchain.com>
Monday 03 December 2007 Tarihinde 23:46:24 yazmıştı:
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> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Martin Koegler wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> For the record, this was on a debian sid machine.
>
> #perl --version
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
>
> and the result of not using the original patch was:
>
> <h1>Software error:</h1>
> <pre>Cannot decode string with wide characters at
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 166. </pre>
Can you try the attached patch?
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--- gitweb/gitweb.perl	2007-11-28 11:33:14.000000000 +0200
+++ gitweb/gitweb.perl	2007-11-28 11:33:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -2159,7 +2159,7 @@
 	}
 	my $owner = $gcos;
 	$owner =~ s/[,;].*$//;
-	return to_utf8($owner);
+	return $owner;
 }
 
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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
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