Package: gitweb Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 Severity: wishlist It seems to me unreasonable to default to latin1 in any application nowadays. I am from a country that used to use that encoding (french canada) and we don't anymore: we use utf-8. Presumably, that default is so that non-ASCII charsets are supported, but the reality is that most people have now switched to the unicode cool-aid, and we're really happy about it.
I know I can change the default in gitweb.conf but I happen to use a complicated setup where i have tens of such configs. It would be much more reasonable to have proper defaults in the source. latin1 is not a proper default (why not latin15 then?) - it's too localized. utf8 is the charset we have all agreed on (right?) to support the maximum number of languages. so let's just switch already, shall we? :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gitweb depends on: ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.10-10+deb8u4 ii dpkg 1.17.26 ii git 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 ii lynx-cur 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1 ii nginx-full [httpd] 1.6.2-5+deb8u1 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u4 Versions of packages gitweb recommends: ii libhttp-date-perl 6.02-1 Versions of packages gitweb suggests: ii apache2 [httpd-cgi] 2.4.10-10+deb8u4 ii git-doc 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 ii libcgi-fast-perl 1:2.04-1 ii nginx-full [httpd-cgi] 1.6.2-5+deb8u1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/gitweb.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
