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

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

Really, for bugzilla problems you're better of writing
bugmaster gnome org; gnome-web-list doesn't touch bugzilla, nor should
it, since, for example, doing this without warning could break mysql
(which I believe is the reason it has not been done in the past.)
Anyway, please cc: yourself to:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96376

and we'll continue to see what we can do, but as I indicate in:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96376#c5

the answer is likely to be 'not much' for the foreseeable future.

Luis

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:53:06 +0100, Danilo Šegan <danilo gnome org> wrote:
> 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
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