[Privoxy-devel] privoxy debian patches

[Lee]

On 10/9/18, Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote:
> Hi Lee!

Hi Roland!  Thanks for the response

> On Sa, 06 Okt 2018, Lee wrote:
>
>> Can you give me an example of what
>>
>> https://sources.debian.org/patches/privoxy/3.0.26-6/06_8bit_manual.patch/
>> is supposed to fix?
>
> This is an old patch from 2004.  The problem there was that ©
> HTML tag was converted to an 8bit character, which wasn't intended.
> The patch fixed this issue in 2004 and I have to admit, that I didn't
> check whether it is still necessary...
> See https://bugs.debian.org/203697 for the complete discussion...
>
>> I just tried building the privoxy docs with & without the patch and I
>> don't see the difference.
>
> So it may no longer be necessary, at least on your system :-)

Which is not all that reassuring.  Along with "© converted to
8bit char" type things seem to still be happening:

Lee at i3668 /source/privoxy/privoxy/doc/source
$ file *sgml | grep -v ASCII
p-authors.sgml:        exported SGML document, ISO-8859 text

Lee at i3668 /source/privoxy/privoxy/doc/webserver/user-manual
$ file *html |grep -v ASCII
configuration.html: HTML document, ISO-8859 text
copyright.html:     HTML document, ISO-8859 text
index.html:         HTML document, ISO-8859 text
quickstart.html:    HTML document, ISO-8859 text

I'm guessing that if everything was utf8 there wouldn't be as many
opportunities for things to break (in a locale specific way?)

That sounds like an interesting project; see if I can get everything
handled as utf8

Thanks
Lee