fedora-infrastructure

#13064 UTF-8 is not working in Pagure
Closed: Fixed with Explanation by ryanlerch. Opened by jskarvad.

Closed: Fixed with Explanation
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Describe what you would like us to do:

UTF-8 doesn't work in Pagure, e.g. check:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/exim/blob/main/f/main.fmf

There is written:
Jaroslav Škarvada

Or even the RAW:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/exim/raw/main/f/main.fmf
There is:
Jaroslav Å karvada

It should be:
Jaroslav Škarvada

I tried Firefox and Chrome. The file is downloaded OK, so it's probably bad encoding headers.

The 'Š' in UTF-8 is coded as 0xC5 0xA0, the local file:

$ cat main.fmf 
# QE owner
contact: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com>
component: exim
$ file main.fmf 
main.fmf: Unicode text, UTF-8 text
$ hexdump -C ./main.fmf 
00000000  23 20 51 45 20 6f 77 6e  65 72 0a 63 6f 6e 74 61  |# QE owner.conta|
00000010  63 74 3a 20 4a 61 72 6f  73 6c 61 76 20 c5 a0 6b  |ct: Jaroslav ..k|
00000020  61 72 76 61 64 61 20 3c  6a 73 6b 61 72 76 61 64  |arvada <jskarvad|
00000030  40 72 65 64 68 61 74 2e  63 6f 6d 3e 0a 63 6f 6d  |@redhat.com>.com|
00000040  70 6f 6e 65 6e 74 3a 20  65 78 69 6d 0a           |ponent: exim.|

When do you need this to be done by?

No deadline, nice to have.

$ curl -If https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/exim/raw/main/f/main.fmf | grep -i content-type:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0    77    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
content-type: text/plain; charset=IBM852

text/plain is okay, I am not sure where does the IBM852 come from.

$ curl -sfI https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/exim/raw/main/f/LICENSE | grep -i content-type:
content-type: text/plain; charset=ASCII
$ curl -sfI https://src.fedoraproject.org/tests/exim/raw/main/f/README.md | grep -i content-type:
content-type: text/markdown; charset=ASCII

I think everywhere not specifc charset is needed otherwise, UTF-8 should be default in 2026

Metadata Update from @james:
- Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review)
- Issue tagged with: low-gain, low-trouble

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/13064

Please continue any further discussion there.

Metadata Update from @ryanlerch:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed with Explanation
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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