On Wednesday 02 May 2007 00:44:46 you wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 00:39:34 you wrote: > > Ismail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Ok found out the reason. decode() tries to decode data that is already > > > UTF-8 and borks. > > > > > > This is from Encode.pm : > > > > > > sub decode_utf8($;$) { > > > my ( $str, $check ) = @_; > > > return $str if is_utf8($str); <--- Checks if the $str is already > > > UTF-8 if ($check) { > > > return decode( "utf8", $str, $check ); <--- Else do what gitweb > > > does [...] > > > > > > So my patch is indeed correct. > > > > Ok, I think that makes it an improvement from the current code, > > so I'd apply. > > > > But at the same time I wonder why should the callers be feeding > > an already decoded string to to_utf8(). It might be that some > > callers needs fixing. > > FWIW it was passing my name "İsmail Dönmez" based on user info I guess. I guess its line 1116: if (check_export_ok("$projectroot/$path")) { my $pr = { path => $path, owner => to_utf8($owner), <---- Here }; My system is configured for UTF-8 so $owner will be UTF-8 but in some systems it might not be so I don't think there is anything to fix here. Regards, ismail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html