[Popcon-developers] stable Packages.gz is UTF-8
Bill Allombert
Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Mon May 5 18:31:47 UTC 2008
Hello Petter,
(As far as I remember you made that change by looking at files
under /org/popcon.debian.org/logs/)
debian.changelog claims that
* Correct charset handling in popcon.pl for ISO-8859-1.
* Change popcon.pl to handle the fact that
/org/ftp.root/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-*/Packages.gz is not
UTF-8. Otherwise it would croak on a name containing 'ó'.
but this statement is not true, just try
file -z /org/ftp.root/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-*/Packages.gz
What might happens is that this file is not 100% valid UTF-8, but
this does not make it valid latin1 either.
The result is that the file by_maint are completly wrong, because
maintainers whose name is 8bit appears twice, once correctly and once
mangled (Search for 'rkan').
So I would like to know the specific issue you met, and to fix it properly.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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