From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:03:11 GMT Subject: gitweb on kernel.org and UTF-8 Message-ID: <7vzmnw9qo0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Is it possible that the UTF-8 check in gitweb running on kernel.org machine is somehow too strict? The following two commits in git.git repository are not showing properly. I have a track record of getting peoples' names wrong, so I double checked my commit objects, and as far as I can tell, all of them are encoded in UTF-8 properly (or at least I can view what I expect if I throw raw bytes from the commit objects at my Firefox): c3df8568424684bbcc7df7722eb3ec34bdae8b2d This is from Yoshifuji-san; the third character in author name field is mangled. bb931cf9d73d94d9940b6d0ee56b6c13ad42f1a0 This is from Lukas Sandstr*m; o with Umlaut on top is showing a ?. Incidentally, the blob that records recent version of Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt has his name in it, which has the same ? problem, but "plain" option shows his name correctly in UTF-8. Interestingly enough, my name spelled in Japanese (Documentatino/git-lost-found.txt) is intact. Am I getting a VIP treatment somehow?