Request #31148

From:

pseudomonas

Account Type:

Seed Account

Dreamwidth:

Account Name:

pseudomonas

Style: (S2) core: public, layout: public, theme: public, user: custom

Email confirmed? Yes

cluster: 10

data version: 10

scheme: tropo-purple

Media storage used: 6.373 MB (0.2%)

Support category:

General/Unknown [Previous| Next]

Time posted:

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 08:00:17 GMT (527 weeks ago)

Status:

Open

Summary:

Encoding bug in FOAF XML - server response headers are declaring UTF8

Original Request:

https://cedara.dreamwidth.org/data/foaf has some encoding issues, I think. Server headers are declaring it to be UTF8, but my browser and XML parser don't think it is. Any ideas?

Diagnostics: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

$ iconv -f latin1 -tutf8 cedara.xml | xmllint - | less

this seems to fix the problem (though if it's just the one ü character it doesn't guarantee precisely that it's latin1-encoded)

So, I *think* the issue is not that the encoding is wrong (cos DW's FOAF-generation normally escapes all non-ASCII utf8 characters and this appears to be working OK), but that the user has been able to include broken encoding in their profile.

There's a character 0xFC which has got in there somehow and is forbidden utf8 but permitted as latin1. It displays wrongly on the profile page too (tooltip of the hourglass icon)

My guess is that this was at some point an importer bug pulling the page from http://cedara.livejournal.com/profile - but the ü displays correctly there.

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