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Re: [PATCH 2/n] gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_path

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2006, 23:35 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:44:48PM CET, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Which solution do you think it's best?
>> 
>> Sorry, if it was not clear in my message, I wanted to say that I
>> kinda liked those "control pictures" in U+2400 range.
> 
> In principle, right now it should be pretty easy for a project that for
> some reason does not use UTF-8 in commits etc. to adjust gitweb to work
> properly, right? Just change the encoding in HTTP headers and you're
> done, I think.
> 
> Is it worth trying to preserve that flexibility?

It should be also quite easy to change to_uft8 subroutine to actually convert to utf8. But even if we don't use UTF-8 encoding for HTML in gitweb, numerical character entities (and that's how those "control pictures" are entered) should work equally well regardless of encoding.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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Message 16 of 46 in “gitweb: Better quoting and New improved patchset view”
  1. gitweb: Better quoting and New improved patchset viewJakub Narebski, Oct 30, 2006
  2. gitweb: Better git-unquoting and gitweb-quoting of pathnamesJakub Narebski, Oct 30, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  7. gitweb: Use '&iquot;' instead of '?' in esc_pathJakub Narebski, Oct 30, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiOct 31, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  13. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  15. Petr BaudisNov 3, 2006
  16. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisNov 4, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiNov 6, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoNov 6, 2006
  21. Jakub NarebskiNov 6, 2006
  22. Jakub NarebskiNov 7, 2006
  23. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2006
  24. gitweb: Use 's' regexp modifier to secure against filenames with LFJakub Narebski, Oct 30, 2006
  25. gitweb: Secure against commit-ish/tree-ish with the same name as pathJakub Narebski, Oct 30, 2006
  26. Jakub NarebskiOct 31, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2006
  28. Jakub NarebskiNov 1, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2006
  30. Jakub NarebskiNov 2, 2006
  31. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  32. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  33. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  34. [take 3] gitweb: New improved patchset viewJakub Narebski, Oct 31, 2006
  35. 5/10 gitweb: New improved patchset viewJakub Narebski, Nov 3, 2006
  36. gitweb: Remove redundant "blob" links from git_difftree_bodyJakub Narebski, Oct 31, 2006
  37. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  38. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  39. gitweb: Output also empty patches in "commitdiff" viewJakub Narebski, Oct 31, 2006
  40. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2006
  41. gitweb: Fix two issues with quoted filenames in git_patchset_bodyJakub Narebski, Oct 31, 2006
  42. gitweb: Better support for non-CSS aware web browsersJakub Narebski, Nov 1, 2006
  43. Petr BaudisNov 1, 2006
  44. gitweb: New improved formatting of chunk header in diffJakub Narebski, Nov 1, 2006
  45. Jakub NarebskiNov 1, 2006
  46. Jakub NarebskiNov 7, 2006

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