Re: Question about watch-file

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > 
> > Bug report: The file contents should be interpreted as UTF-8
> > encoding.
> 
> Fixed. htmlentities() was messing the special characters instead of
> making them display properly.

An improvement, but now it shows the same (wrong) output as described
here:

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Possibly related: The link provided to view the watch file
> <URL:http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/wwiz_detail.php?id=11448238&type=watch>
> leads to content served as UTF-8 but apparently not interpreting its
> source correctly:
> 
> =====
> #
> # Fetching these files for inclusion in a Debian source package is
> # automated in the Debian package with 'debian/rules get-orig-source',
> # as per Policy 3.8.0 §4.9.
> =====
> 
> The package's watch file is encoded as UTF-8, so apparently something
> is getting the encoding wrong somewhere along the line to producing
> the [document] at that URL.

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Ben Finney