Hi, On 29/08/16 at 12:34 +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: > Hey Lucas, > > On 28/08/16 17:10, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > > Package: how-can-i-help > > > > I noticed that how-can-i-help fails to display properly bug titles when > > they contain non-ASCII characters: > > > >> - piuparts - <CUT> to test upgrades from wheezy to sid using local > >> pac?ages > > Recently, Nicolas filled a bug against how-can-i-help pointing out that > we convert all the non-ASCII characters into '?'. Looking at the UDD > script [1], I can tell that we are performing this conversion > intentionally (force_ascii method) on most title and descriptions > fields. I have two questions: > > 1. Why was this forced conversion added? To sanitize output and to > prevent formating errors?
Yes. The bugs data contains lots of non-UTF-8 characters. > 2. Shouldn't it be applied to all title and description fields? yes probably. Maybe it should be modified to force-convert to valid UTF-8 instead of ASCII though. Lucas
