Hi, The NEWS files we release [1] obviously use UTF-8 encoding, but when it's displayed from a web browser the browser has no way to know that. I think Firefox has some heuristic to guess the encoding, but we should make it work in other browsers too. WebKit correctly treats our NEWS files as ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) text for compatibility with old websites, which results in people's names being messed up in our NEWS. It's been broken forever, nothing new.
To fix it, we can either: * Specify the encoding in our HTTP headers. That would have to be done on each mirror that hosts the NEWS, so can't really do that. * Specify the encoding in the document. We have to insert a zero-width non-breaking space (U+FEFF) as the first character in the document. I tested this just now and it works fine in WebKit. So the later option seems good. I found the code to handle this in /usr/local/bin/ftpadmin on master (search for "moduleprint") but I'm afraid to touch that file. Actually, I hope I don't have permission to touch it anyway. :) Is it maintained in git anywhere? Michael [1] http://ftp-chi.osuosl.org/pub/gnome/core/3.23/3.23.3/NEWS _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
