Let's fix our NEWS files!

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

Hi,

The NEWS files we release [1] obviously use UTF-8 encoding, but when
it's displayed from a web browser the browser has no way to know that.
I think Firefox has some heuristic to guess the encoding, but we should
make it work in other browsers too. WebKit correctly treats our NEWS
files as ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) text for compatibility with old websites,
which results in people's names being messed up in our NEWS. It's been
broken forever, nothing new.

To fix it, we can either:

 * Specify the encoding in our HTTP headers. That would have to be done
on each mirror that hosts the NEWS, so can't really do that.
 * Specify the encoding in the document. We have to insert a zero-width 
non-breaking space (U+FEFF) as the first character in the document. I
tested this just now and it works fine in WebKit.

So the later option seems good.

I found the code to handle this in /usr/local/bin/ftpadmin on master
(search for "moduleprint") but I'm afraid to touch that file. Actually,
I hope I don't have permission to touch it anyway. :) Is it maintained
in git anywhere?

Michael

[1] http://ftp-chi.osuosl.org/pub/gnome/core/3.23/3.23.3/NEWS