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Hi,
Daniele Forsi <
[email protected]> 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
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