Re: [viewvc-users] character sets

Just so you know -- I release 1.1.21 a few minutes ago, so that'd be the
best one to grab:  http://viewvc.org/viewvc-1.1.21.zip

On 09/13/2013 09:59 AM, Zoltan Hamar wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> we are running 1.1.15 on windows server.  The 'detect_encoding = 1' was
> already set int he config file, so I will try to upgrade and have the
> 'python-chardet' package!
> 
> Many thanks for you help, have a nice week-end!
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> -----Eredeti üzenet-----
> Feladó: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Küldve: 2013. szeptember 13. 15:28
> Címzett: Zoltan Hamar
> Másolatot kap: [email protected]
> Tárgy: Re: [viewvc-users] character sets
> 
> On 09/13/2013 07:36 AM, Zoltan Hamar wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> we are using viewvc, here in Hungary, and there is a problem with hun 
>> special characters.
>>
>> The page starts with unicode(utf-8) and does not display the 
>> characters correctly. If I change the encoding manually to central
>> european(ISO-8859-2) it looks just fine.
>>
>> Is there a way to force the page to start with iso-8859-2?
> 
> ViewVC wants to generate UTF-8 output more or less universally[1].
> That's the character encoding used by its templates, and the character set
> used by Subversion's revision metadata, etc.  So UTF-8 really is the best
> output character encoding option.  Now, obviously, not every versioned file
> is going to have UTF-8 contents, so where it can do so, ViewVC will try to
> transcode file contents into UTF-8 for display.
> ViewVC depends, however, on external Python libraries to do this transcoding
> work, though.
> 
> My recommendation:
> 
> * If you aren't using at least ViewVC 1.1.19, upgrade[2].
> 
> * Install the 'chardet' Python module.  On Ubuntu Linux, it's the
>   'python-chardet' package.  Not sure what OS you're on.  The project
>   homepage is https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet, though.
> 
> * Set 'detect_encoding = 1' in your viewvc.conf file.
> 
> -- Mike
> 
> [1] The "download" (or "checkout") view is the exception.
> 
> [2] You might as well upgrade to the latest, 1.1.20, but be aware of
>     http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=527.  I'll try to
>     release 1.1.21 with the fix for that issue today.  Thanks for the
>     reminder. :-)
>

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