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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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Atomo64 - Raphael

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