Re: Let's fix our NEWS files!

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 07:12:03PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:40:14AM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Suggest another option:
>  1. Prevent download.gnome.org from redirecting NEWS files
>  2. Configure UTF-8 header
>
> This as putting that special character in the text file seems rather
> ugly.

Header was already set. Please try:
https://download.gnome.org/core/3.23/3.23.3/NEWS

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Regards,
Olav