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To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gitweb should default to utf8 instead of latin1
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:50:32 -0400
Package: gitweb
Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
Severity: wishlist
It seems to me unreasonable to default to latin1 in any application
nowadays. I am from a country that used to use that encoding (french
canada) and we don't anymore: we use utf-8. Presumably, that default is
so that non-ASCII charsets are supported, but the reality is that most
people have now switched to the unicode cool-aid, and we're really happy
about it.
I know I can change the default in gitweb.conf but I happen to use a
complicated setup where i have tens of such configs. It would be much
more reasonable to have proper defaults in the source.
latin1 is not a proper default (why not latin15 then?) - it's too
localized. utf8 is the charset we have all agreed on (right?) to support
the maximum number of languages.
so let's just switch already, shall we? :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gitweb depends on:
ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.10-10+deb8u4
ii dpkg 1.17.26
ii git 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
ii lynx-cur 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1
ii nginx-full [httpd] 1.6.2-5+deb8u1
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u4
Versions of packages gitweb recommends:
ii libhttp-date-perl 6.02-1
Versions of packages gitweb suggests:
ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-10+deb8u4
ii git-doc 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
ii libcgi-fast-perl 1:2.04-1
ii nginx-full [httpd-cgi] 1.6.2-5+deb8u1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gitweb.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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