Re: [PATCH] gitweb: use decode_utf8 directly

["Ismail Dönmez" <ismail@pardus.org.tr>]

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Hi,
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 00:39:34 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> writes:
> > Ok found out the reason. decode() tries to decode data that is already
> > UTF-8 and borks.
> >
> > This is from Encode.pm :
> >
> > sub decode_utf8($;$) {
> >     my ( $str, $check ) = @_;
> >     return $str if is_utf8($str); <--- Checks if the $str is already
> > UTF-8 if ($check) {
> >         return decode( "utf8", $str, $check ); <--- Else do what gitweb
> > does [...]
> >
> > So my patch is indeed correct.
>
> Ok, I think that makes it an improvement from the current code,
> so I'd apply.
>
> But at the same time I wonder why should the callers be feeding
> an already decoded string to to_utf8().  It might be that some
> callers needs fixing.

Is the patch OK do you want more investigation? Asking because its still not 
in git.git.

Regards,
ismail

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