displaying text files with borgström ....

[ThurnerRupert]

it seems that source:/sandbox/pycon/workflow/AUTHORS has a characterset which cannot be displayed correctly, in this case jonas borgström. should it be like that or is this a bug in trac?

[Emmanuel Blot]

It's usually due to a mismatch between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.

Jonas' last name is a really good test for this issue, which has already been fixed in several Python source files ;-)

In this case, the file is encoded as ISO-8859-1 while most of the other files are using UTF-8. It guess it should be converted to UTF-8 then.

[asmodai@…]

The location does not match anymore.

source:trunk/AUTHORS​ is now the right place.

Easily fixed by doing a:

$ iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 AUTHORS > new && mv new AUTHORS && svn commit

It writes an UTF-8 BOM and should be recognised by any decent editor worth its encoding salt.

[Emmanuel Blot]

Wow:

Avoid usage of BOM markers in UTF-8 files.
This can cause A LOT of issues on non-Windows platforms, and should be avoided.

For example, it can cause a Python script file not to execute on Unix.

[osimons]

Wasn't this fixed by [6281]? Are there any remaining issues with this, or can the ticket be closed?

[Christian Boos]

Yes, that file is in UTF-8 now (and there's no BOM marker in it, to address eblot's concerns).

[Emmanuel Blot]

Replying to cboos:

Yes, that file is in UTF-8 now (and there's no BOM marker in it, to address eblot's concerns).

Thanks ;-)