On Thu 10 Sep 2009 02:01 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote: > Currently AUR does not check the uploaded packages, whether they are > correctly in UTF8 encoding. If there are fields (such as $pkgdesc) > that contain such non-UTF8 characters, the rpc interface chokes on > those fields: even if there's data successfully retrieved from the > database, rpc returns "null". > In an effort to make such errors in the PKGBUILDs debugged more easily, > let's force rpc to have more useful output: try to convert non-UTF8 > fields to UTF8. If it's a success, good. Partial success (some characters > showing as \uXXXX) is ok. Failure results in error message printed to that > field.
It would be nice if this could appear in search as well as info. The important thing is that we're giving the user as much info as possible, debugging is a secondary goal.