Hi, Daniele Forsi <dfo...@gmail.com> wrote (Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:52:11 +0200): > The page https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/releasenotes has links to > translated versions > of the relese notes in HTML, plain text and PDF versions. > > The plain text versions when downloaded and displayed locally show the > national characters > correctly and according to the "file" command they are "Unicode text, UTF-8 > text", > but if I display them in Chrome or Firefox by clicking on the links of that > page, such as > https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes.it.txt > I see garbled characters as if the browser is using an encoding such as > ISO-8859-1.
I discovered, Firefox has a feature in the menu under (something like) "Other tools" (sorry, I have it localized to German here, in German it's "Mehr Werkzeuge"). The feature is named "Textkodierung reparieren" in German, so roughly "Fix text encoding" should be the correct translation in English. And that fixes the issue for me for all languages on https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/releasenotes. I don't know what's the magic behind this feature, but if it can be fixed for the user this way, is it really a server issue then? On the other hand, I only find Firefox having this feature, so it's a solution (or moreover a workaround) for only a subset of users... But I thought I mention it anyway, probably it helps to find the real reason for all this. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
