Re: Bug#865713: Declaring a charset of UTF-8 for policy files

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 at 15:04:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Stéphane Blondon <[email protected]> writes:
> > pabs added such configuration few days ago for Apache configuration:
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/dsa-puppet.git/commit/?id=5bcf8431d6b375d211a29f9d2c338e4400332e1a
> 
> Paul, does this resolve your original issue?  I'm a bit worried that it
> might not because this was a little bit ago, and I think it should have
> already been in place when you were testing.

That configuration change was for ftp.debian.org, not for www. A
similar change to apache-www.debian.org.erb would probably do the right
thing.

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/bug-log-access.txt does look correct
to me (with a Unicode copyright symbol near the end) in Firefox 52.2.0.
Compare:

$ curl --silent -o /dev/null --dump-header - \
  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/bug-log-access.txt \
  | grep Content-Type
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

$ curl --silent -o /dev/null --dump-header - \
  https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt \
  | grep -i Content-Type
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: text/plain

For what it's worth, I agree that declaring the correct charset in HTTP
metadata is a better solution than prepending U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
(aka the "byte-order mark") in the file content.

Regards,
    S