From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:09:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFCv2 (version B)] gitweb: Allow UTF-8 encoded CGI query parameters and path_info
Message-ID: <7vzkczmxon.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201202031344.55750.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Gitweb tries hard to properly process UTF-8 data, by marking output
> from git commands and contents of files as UTF-8 with to_utf8()
> subroutine.  This ensures that gitweb would print correctly UTF-8
> e.g. in 'log' and 'commit' views.
>
> Unfortunately it misses another source of potentially Unicode input,
> namely query parameters.  The result is that one cannot search for a

I think two lines should suffice instead of the above two paragraphs.

        Gitweb forgot to turn query parameters into UTF-8. This results in
        a bug that one cannot search for a

> string containing characters outside US-ASCII.  For example searching
> ...

The remainder explains the problem and the solution very well modulo minor
typos.

> Noticed-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> ---

We can add "Tested-by:" to this now.  Will queue.

Thanks.