Mailing List Archive: Changeset diff view and swedish characters

Johan Appelgren wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting the changeset view to work with swedish
> characters. The swedish characters and some other characters around them are
> replaced by what looks like chineese.
>
> When browsing the source the swedish characters displays just fine.
>
> I'm using trac 0.7.1.pre, python 2.3, subversion 1.0.3, apache 2.0.49 on
> windows xp pro. Not sure which diffprogram is used, but I have gnuwin32 diff
> installed so I'm guessing that's what is used.
>
> I'm guessing something is not quite right in my setup, anyone have any ideas
> on where I should start looking?

Hi,

I think the problem is that the Swedish characters in your files are
encoded using latin1 (iso-8859-1) and not utf-8 that Trac uses internally.
The changeset module probably need to do the same trick as the file
browser module does. It assumes that a file uses latin1 if it isn't in
utf-8.
Because detecting encoding is hard/impossible the best we can do is to
convert the text from one user specified encoding (in trac.ini) to utf-8
before sending the data to the browser.
This will only work if all your files uses either utf-8 or encoding x.

I created ticket #450 about this issue.

/ Jonas
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