Bug#907458: qa.debian.org: bogus encoding of vcswatch
Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi!
I'm afraid that the tool that displays changelogs from git breaks non-ASCII
characters. It's not a matter of web server configuration as http headers
are ok:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Seen on https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=git-mestrelion-tools
debian/changelog files are guaranteed to be in UTF-8: it's a serious bug and
I think even an autoreject. According to lintian.debian.org, not a single
package in the archive has its changelog in an ancient encoding:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
If someone has mojibake in the git repository, you can just output it as-is
or replace the offending characters with U+FFFD; any browser will cope with
either of these ways.
Yet here we have a case of correctly encoded file that's mangled.
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.5+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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