"AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" for all parts of .gnome.org?

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hello to all our beloved web-hackers, :)

I know this was in place for some time, and then it was reverted due
to problems with some of the pages[1].  

But, this doesn't solve anything: we still have problems of crappy and
mis-encoded pages, because people expect to be able to input every
character they wish on gnome.org pages.

The concrete example is attempt by Christian Rose to input "Muñiz" on
Bugzilla pages:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167159

This is not the only example, it's only the latest I ran into.


Yeah, there's no clear win-win solution, but I'm of opinion that we're
better off mandating UTF-8 everywhere, and slowly shifting our pages
when we notice some problems, than limiting and getting incorrect
input (i.e. imagine a user entering his name on some gnome.org form;
we'd unexpectedly get question marks or SGML entities instead of the
name, or worse of it all, mixed-up characters).

So, my basic premise is that we *must* have UTF-8 encoding on at
least all our pages that allow user input (so, at least Bugzilla), and
that's most easily done by pushing UTF-8 everywhere.

At least having it set for bugzilla.gnome.org VirtualHost would help,
of course :)

Cheers,
Danilo


[1]http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2004-March/msg00085.html