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Bug #69266 character encoding issues on people.php.net
Submitted: 2015-03-20 01:21 UTC Modified: 2015-06-10 20:17 UTC
From: cmb@php.net Assigned: salathe (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: n/a
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2015-03-20 01:21 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Description:
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Apparently, character encodings are mixed up on people.php.net.
See, for instance, <https://people.php.net/?page=16>, where the
name of "Johannes Schlüter" is UTF-8 encoded, while the name of
"Peter Hüwe" is not (the ü is substituted by a REPLACEMENT
CHARACTER).

Furthermore the Content-Type of the document is specified as
"text/html" only (without a charset), so contemporary browsers are
supposed to assume UTF-8, while older browsers might assume
another character encoding.

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 [2015-03-20 09:11 UTC] salathe@php.net 
The issue is most probably the value stored in the database (on master.php.net). Peter's user page [1] on master, for example, shows the same problem.

If that is the case, we should get an "admin" [2] or someone with access to the box [3] to fix up the data.

[1] https://master.php.net/manage/users.php?username=peterhuewe
[2] https://github.com/salathe/php-web-master/blob/master/include/functions.inc#L407-L431
[3] https://wiki.php.net/systems/osu1php
 [2015-06-10 18:44 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: salathe
 [2015-06-10 18:44 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Peter, can you please have a look at this issue?
 [2015-06-10 19:18 UTC] salathe@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Feedback
 [2015-06-10 19:18 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Since I'm an "admin" now, I guess I can look at it!

The names with the replacement character have been fixed on master. It may take up to a week for the user list cache on people.php.net to expire, before seeing those changes on that site.

For the Content-Type being only "text/html", do you want to see that fixed too or just let browsers do their thing?
 [2015-06-10 20:17 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Feedback +Status: Closed
 [2015-06-10 20:17 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Thanks!

The Content-Type is most likely okay as is, because the
document has a <meta charset> element, so supposedly there will be
no problems even on older browsers.
 
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