Re: Question about watch-file
Ben Finney wrote:
> 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:
Yeah, that's another known issue. DEHS currently treats all its input data
as ISO-8859-1 and converts it into UTF-8 without first checking if the
input is already UTF-8.
Will try to fix it next time I dig on DEHS' code.
>
> 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.
>
Cheers,
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