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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Git:_web_commit_message_not_utf-8.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Git:_web_commit_message_not_utf-8.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..71ccff3a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Git:_web_commit_message_not_utf-8.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +The message generated for web commits: + +> web commit by madduck + +is not utf-8 encoded before passed to Git (which uses utf-8 as default encoding for commit messages). This causes a wrongly-encoded log entry, and makes ikiwiki spew warnings as it creates `recentchanges`: + + utf8 "\xF6" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm line 36, <$OUT> line 57. + Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6e, immediately after start byte 0xf6) in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm line 393. + utf8 "\xF6" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm line 36, <$OUT> line 5. + +(This is version 2.53.3~bpo40+1 for lack of a newer backport for sarge) + +Please make sure that commit messages for Git are always utf-8. |