From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:24:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names
Message-ID: <xmqq38gbgdkk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1405150957520.10221@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

> 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).

Thanks for a quick response.  If the input was unnecessarily encoded
one extra time, it is no wonder it needed one unnecessary extra
decoding.