From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 02:38:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Measure offsets against UTF-8 flagged string
Message-ID: <xmqqin84taau.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k1skzzc4.fsf@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the problem is not with aligning, otherwise we would simply get
> bad aling, and not visible corruption.  The ACTUAL PROBLEM is most
> probably because of concatenating strings marked as UTF-8 and strings
> not marked as UTF-8.  Strange things happen then in Perl, unfortunetaly.

Sounds quite right---the patch needs to be retitled, if the bug is
not about "measuring offset", which I think is what fooled me when I
sent my response.