reassign 720308 gitweb retitle 720308 gitweb: double-utf8-encoding problems in FastCGI mode tags 720308 + upstream forwarded 720308 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211888 quit
Hi Vincent, Vincent Férotin wrote: > gitweb is supposed to be "serveable" through FastCGI with Apache, as > its manual claimed it > (section "WEBSERVER CONFIGURATION", subsection "Apache with FastCGI"). > I experimented an error using it, as generated XHTML had double/wrong > encoding (i.e. non all UTF-8), when gitweb CGI script encounter my > (accented) name, e.g. in git's log. > > This problem is known, as e.g. reported here: > > http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Gitweb-running-as-FCGI-does-not-print-its-output-in-UTF-8-td7573415.html [...] > The easiest solution could be to not recommend FastCGI for gitweb, and > update documentation so. Heh. I prefer not to do this if possible (it would be better to get the underlying problem fixed). It might be worth adding a description of this issue to the BUGS section to the manpage and pointing to it, though. > Also, this section shows a `FastCGIServer` directive, which is > specific to libapache2-mod-fastcgi, > which belongs to non-free packages' section. For example, a free > alternative is package libapache2-mod-fcgid, > which has not this directive. So this section content could also be > rewritten, according to the recommended Apache's FastCGI module by > Debian (I don't know if it is libapache2-mod-fcgid). > > An other and last remark: could it be possible that gitweb's manual > belong to gitweb's package > This bug report should IMHO better stand with gitweb's other bugs? The main git package in Debian includes git-instaweb, which is why the gitweb docs are in there. Probably I should move git-instaweb to the gitweb package, which would simplify things. Thanks for a pleasant report, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
