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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names

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MWMichael Wagner <accounts@mwagner.org>
Date
May 15, 2014, 18:48 UTC
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:04:24AM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:
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> Michael Wagner:
> 
> >Decoding the UTF-8 encoded file name (again with an additional print
> >statement):
> >
> >$ REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING='p=notes.git;a=blob_plain;f=work/G%C3%83%C2%BCtekriterien.txt;hb=HEAD' ./gitweb.cgi
> >
> >work/Gütekriterien.txt
> >Content-disposition: inline; filename="work/Gütekriterien.txt"
> 
> You should fix the code path that created that URI, though, as it is not
> what you expected.
> 
> %C3%83 decodes to U+00C3 Latin Capital Letter A With Tilde
> %C2%BC decodes to U+00BC Vulgar Graction One Quarter
> 
> The proper UTF-8 encoding for ü (U+00FC) is, as you can probably guess from
> looking at which two characters the sequence above yielded, C3 BC, which in
> a URI is represented as %C3%BC.
> 
> Your QUERY_STRING should thus be
> 
>   p=notes.git;a=blob_plain;f=work/G%C3%BCtekriterien.txt;hb=HEAD
> 
> which probably works as expected.
Obviously, you are right, thanks.
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> 
> What is happening is that whatever is generating the URI us UTF-8-encoding
> the string twice (i.e., it generates a string with the proper C3 BC in it,
> and then interprets it as iso-8859-1 data and runs that through a UTF-8
> encoder again, yielding the C3 83 C2 BC sequence you see above).
> 

The subroutine "git tree" generates the tree view. It stores the output of "git ls-tree -z ..." in an array named "@entries". Printing the content of this array yields the following result:

00644 blob 6419cd06a9461c38d4f94d9705d97eaaa887156a     520 Gütekriterien.txt

This leads to the "doubled" encoding. Declaring the encoding in the call to open yields the following result:

100644 blob 6419cd06a9461c38d4f94d9705d97eaaa887156a     520 Gütekriterien.txt
---
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index a9f57d6..f1414e1 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -7138,7 +7138,7 @@ sub git_tree {
        my @entries = ();
        {
                local $/ = "\0";
-               open my $fd, "-|", git_cmd(), "ls-tree", '-z',
+               open my $fd, "-|encoding(UTF-8)", git_cmd(), "ls-tree", '-z',
                        ($show_sizes ? '-l' : ()), @extra_options, $hash
                        or die_error(500, "Open git-ls-tree failed");
                @entries = map { chomp; $_ } <$fd>;

> -- 
> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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  1. Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file namesMichael Wagner, May 14, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2014
  3. Jakub NarębskiMay 14, 2014
  4. Michael WagnerMay 15, 2014
  5. Peter KreftingMay 15, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2014
  7. Michael WagnerMay 15, 2014
  8. Jakub NarębskiMay 15, 2014
  9. Jakub NarębskiMay 15, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2014
  11. Jakub NarębskiMay 15, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2014
  13. Jakub NarębskiMay 16, 2014
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2014
  15. Jakub NarębskiMay 27, 2014
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2014
  17. gitweb: Harden UTF-8 handling in generated linksJakub Narębski, May 27, 2014
  18. Michael WagnerJun 4, 2014
  19. Jakub NarębskiJun 4, 2014
  20. Michael WagnerJun 4, 2014
  21. Jakub NarębskiMay 15, 2014

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