Changes to ticket f6bfac2648

By drh on 2008-08-05 22:21:58. See also: artifact content, and ticket history

1. Appended to comment:

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   drh added on 2008-08-05 22:21:58:
   Fossil stores all files as binary data. There are never any encoding changes or attempts to interpret or translate text. This is by design.

   When displaying a file using the web interface, fossil assumes a UTF-8 encoding. Fossil does not record any mimetype information so there is nothing else it can do. If you try to display a GIF file that using the web interface it will also come out looking funky when it tries to interpret the binary GIF file as UTF-8.

   I suppose the artifact viewer in the web interface could look at the file and try to make some guess at its mimetype. But that is an advanced capabiity. I'm not sure we really want to go there.

   For now, let's just say that if you want to look at the file using the web interface, then the file needs to be UTF8. If you want to look at non-UTF8 files, the check them out (thus getting an exact replicate of the original file) and view them using an appropriate viewer for that file.

2. Change priority to "Immediate"
3. Change private_contact to "24b67375dd2ec6c7381a5ad34cfcf006f0b9c260"
4. Change resolution to "Not_A_Bug"
5. Change status to "Closed"
6. Change subsystem to "one"