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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Michael Wagner <accounts@mwagner•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:57:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd2fghvlf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140514184145.GA25699@localhost.localdomain> (Michael Wagner's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 20:41:45 +0200")

Michael Wagner <accounts@mwagner•org> writes:

> Perl has an internal encoding used to store text strings. Currently, trying to
> view files with UTF-8 encoded names results in an error (either "404 - Cannot
> find file" [blob_plain] or "XML Parsing Error" [blob]). Converting these UTF-8
> encoded file names into Perl's internal format resolves these errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Wagner <accounts@mwagner•org>
> ---

Cc'ing Jakub, who have been the area maintainer, for comments.

One thing I wonder is that, if there are some additional calls to
encode() necessary before we embed $file_name (which are now decoded
to the internal string form, not a byte-sequence that happens to be
in utf-8) in the generated pages, if we were to do this change.

>  gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index a9f57d6..6046977 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ sub evaluate_and_validate_params {
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	our $file_name = $input_params{'file_name'};
> +	our $file_name = decode("utf-8", $input_params{'file_name'});
>  	if (defined $file_name) {
>  		if (!is_valid_pathname($file_name)) {
>  			die_error(400, "Invalid file parameter");

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14 18:41 [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names Michael Wagner
2014-05-14 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-14 22:25   ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-15  5:08     ` Michael Wagner
2014-05-15  9:04       ` Peter Krefting
2014-05-15 17:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-15 18:48         ` Michael Wagner
2014-05-15 19:28           ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-15 19:37             ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-15 19:38             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-15 20:45               ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-16  1:26                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-16  7:54                   ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-16 17:05                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-27 14:18                       ` Jakub Narębski
2014-05-16 18:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-27 14:22             ` [PATCH] gitweb: Harden UTF-8 handling in generated links Jakub Narębski
2014-06-04 15:41               ` Michael Wagner
2014-06-04 18:47                 ` Jakub Narębski
2014-06-04 20:47                   ` Michael Wagner
2014-05-15 12:32       ` [PATCH/RFC] Gitweb: Convert UTF-8 encoded file names Jakub Narębski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-17 14:18 [PATCH v4] remote: add --fetch and --both options to set-url Peter Wu
2014-12-17 14:32 ` Jeff King
2014-12-17 14:42   ` Peter Wu
2014-12-17 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23 21:35 ` What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2015, #08; Mon, 23) Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 20:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 20:04     ` Jeff King
2015-03-24 20:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 22:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-26 16:18     ` Jeff King
2015-03-24 22:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-25  0:37     ` Jakub Narębski
2015-03-25  1:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 23:37   ` Junio C Hamano

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