Re: Help with UTF-8 problem (once more)

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Andreas Tille]
> I have given up for today because I lost any hope to find a clue
> about this what I would regard as a bad implementation of encoding
> handling.

I suspect the method used by popcon might be the correct way.  It adds
:utf8 to the open call to document the encoding.  Here is an untested
patch to implemnt it.

Index: /home/pere/src/debiancvs/debiancddsvn/cdd/devtools/cdd-gen-control
===================================================================
--- /home/pere/src/debiancvs/debiancddsvn/cdd/devtools/cdd-gen-control  (revision 948)
+++ /home/pere/src/debiancvs/debiancddsvn/cdd/devtools/cdd-gen-control  (working copy)
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@

 sub load_task {
     my ($taskfile, $curpkg) = @_;
-    open(TASKFILE, "<$taskfile") || die "Unable to open $taskfile";
+    open(TASKFILE, "<:utf8", $taskfile") || die "Unable to open $taskfile";
     my $line;

     $taskinfo{$curpkg} = ();
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@
     }
     # read taskcontrolfile and find priorities
     print STDERR "Reading task control file.\n" if $debug;
-    open(PRIO,$taskcontrolfile) || die("Unable to read task control file.");
+    open(PRIO,"<:utf8", $taskcontrolfile) || die("Unable to read task control file.");
     while (<PRIO>) {
         chomp ;
        if ( $_=~/^$prio\s*:\s*([-\w]+)/) {


> I do not like to do so because sooner or later we will hit the
> problem again and thus I'll leave the task in for the web page
> rendering until the problem is solved.  But I wonder what you would
> regard as a reasonable behaviour when "Metapackage: false" is set:
> Should an entry for the web pages be rendered if there is no
> metapackage but just a tasksel task or should it be left out?

Not quite sure, but suspect we should show all packages listed in the
educational tasks, even the "hidden" ones.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen