From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:04:53 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb forgets to send utf8 header for raw blob views
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In-Reply-To: <m3tzgg1a06.fsf@localhost.localdomain>


On Friday 2008-05-30 10:18, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:
>
>> I have configured gitweb to use utf8, and that works for text blob views 
>> like on
>> http://dev.medozas.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob;f=bin/git-forest;hb=HEAD
>> but it does not for raw blob views like
>> http://dev.medozas.de/gitweb.cgi?p=hxtools;a=blob_plain;f=bin/git-forest;hb=HEAD
>
>This can depend on configuration, both on gitweb configuration (you
>can for example define $default_blob_plain_mimetype to 'text/plain;
>charset=utf-8', and define $default_text_plain_charset to 'utf-8'),
>and on your /etc/mime.types; gitweb does not add charset info if
>mimetype is acquired from mime.types, which I guess is a mistake.

Thanks for the hint. Setting 
	our $default_text_plain_charset  = "utf-8";
was all that was needed. I only had $fallback_encoding set to utf-8
for whatever reason...