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hollunder＠gmx.at

2 Jul 2009 2 Jul '09

3:46 p.m.

Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8. Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else? I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future. Regards, Philipp

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Xavier

2 Jul 2 Jul

4:08 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150 Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Ray Kohler

4:18 p.m.

I have one: dvdwizard. Look at the contributor's name in the first line. If I download it, I can fix it, but when I upload it again, it becomes broken in just the same way. I'm using utf-8 across the board. This only appears to affect the PKGBUILD viewer - comments are fine. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Xavier wrote:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

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Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

hollunder＠gmx.at

4:23 p.m.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

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Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Cedric Staniewski

4:25 p.m.

The display of package files is not really a part of the AUR interface but handled by the web server. It do not send a charset in the header (Content-Type: text/plain ) which means that the encoding solely depends on the default of the web browser (which is usually iso-8859-1). I assume that one can set a default charset in lighttpd which should probably be done.

Xavier

4:25 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

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Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD

The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

Arkham

4:29 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Xavier wrote:

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

I have that option set in Firefox and I can display both pkgbuilds fine. -- Rita Rudner http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rita_rudner.html - "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."

hollunder＠gmx.at

4:29 p.m.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200 Xavier wrote:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

...
Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD

The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

Thanks, this works, but: it was set to utf-8, so this makes me believe that there's still something wrong somewhere.

Ray Kohler

4:34 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

...
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

...
Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD

The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

Thanks, this works, but: it was set to utf-8, so this makes me believe that there's still something wrong somewhere.

The galan-git PKGBUILD looked fine to me without changing anything, but my dvdwizard one only looked right after setting "Auto Detect -> Universal". Weird.

hollunder＠gmx.at

4:52 p.m.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:34:44 -0400 Ray Kohler wrote:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:25:40 +0200 Xavier wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, wrote:

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:20 +0200 Xavier wrote:

...
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, wrote:

...
Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8.

Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else?

I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future.

afaik the recommended encoding is utf8. see for instance : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9150

Maybe there is a problem with AUR. I cannot find you there though, so do you mind giving a link to a problematic pkgbuild?

Here's a link to one of my packages where the PKGBUILD uses utf-8: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/galan-git/galan-git/PKGBUILD

The first letter is supposed to be a German Umlaut Ü but at least in firefox it shows the two characters Ãœ.

Try : View -> Encoding -> Auto detect -> Universal

Thanks, this works, but: it was set to utf-8, so this makes me believe that there's still something wrong somewhere.

The galan-git PKGBUILD looked fine to me without changing anything, but my dvdwizard one only looked right after setting "Auto Detect -> Universal". Weird.

On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/ What did I do wrong there? The patch was created using: diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch

Xavier

5 p.m.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, wrote:

On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/

What did I do wrong there? The patch was created using: diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch

This is web server (lighttpd) setting again. It's possible to specify that files with .diff or .patch extension are actually of type text/plain and not application/octet-stream , but this was not done. I am not sure what you can do on the client / web browser side.

Gergely Imreh

5:06 p.m.

2009/7/2 Xavier :

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, wrote:

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On a somewhat related note, I wrote a patch today, and firefox thinks it's a binary or something and tries to download it instead of showing me the text: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acweight/acweight/

What did I do wrong there? The patch was created using: diff -u acweight/Makefile Makefile > destdircp.patch

This is web server (lighttpd) setting again. It's possible to specify that files with .diff or .patch extension are actually of type text/plain and not application/octet-stream , but this was not done.

I am not sure what you can do on the client / web browser side.

I think it is not just the patch, looking around, e.g. "LICENSE" files and everything else beside PKGBUILDs are also shown as "application/octet-stream". Greg

Thomas Bächler

5:12 p.m.

Xavier schrieb:

This is web server (lighttpd) setting again. It's possible to specify that files with .diff or .patch extension are actually of type text/plain and not application/octet-stream , but this was not done.

I am not sure what you can do on the client / web browser side.

Nothing really. The correct MIME type must be set on the server. There is a section for website problems on the tracker, maybe that should be posted there.

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