Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue

From: Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 04:12 UTC
Message-ID: <200712040612.32483.ismail@pardus.org.tr>
In-Reply-To: <200712040037.37204.jnareb@gmail.com>

Tuesday 04 December 2007 Tarihinde 01:37:35 yazmıştı:

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> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:20:26AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > > Can you try the attached patch?
> >
> > I confirm that the patch corrects the problem.
> >
> > Without it I get the Cannot decode string error. With it gitweb
> > displays correctly.
>
> But the patch _avoids_ issue (des not convert owner to utf8), rather
> than solving it, if I understand it correctly. What if gecos is in
> utf-8?

Indeed its a workaround but UTF-8 username is correctly displayed in gitweb so my understanding was gecos field is already UTF-8.

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