Looks like the name of the maintainer is not in utf-8, since it displayed with like this: Tomáš Chvátal Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. layman -i gamerlay 2. or vim /var/lib/layman/installed.xml Actual Results: * Contact : Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org> Expected Results: Proper accented characters in the name. 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That's a problem in layman, I guess, not in an overlay or its description.
In fact in repositories.xml, the name is presented in perfectly valid HTML entities.
I'm not sure what you mean by valid html entities, but looking at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml in firefox and doing wget on the link and looking in the file with vim I'm seeing this: <name>Tomáš Chvátal</name> and this <name><![CDATA[Tomáš Chvátal]]></name> In the same time for other repositories I see proper accented characters (I haven't checked many of them), e.g. for aidecoe: <name>Amadeusz Żołnowski</name> and this <name><![CDATA[Amadeusz Żołnowski]]></name> It might be valid html, but it doesn't look like properly encoded utf-8 string in the first case to me. So I think that the text was just provided in some non-utf-8 encoding for that particular overlay. For the reference, afaik the correct string would be: Tomáš Chvátal
I've corrected the gamerlay overlay, but searching for "&" I've found several more with improperly encoded strings. fixed: gamerlay, flameeyes-overlay, fordfrog Still require fixing: dMaggot, wdzierzan, nektoo
cc'ing overlay maintainers that have incorrectly accented names entered in repositories.xml. David, Wojciech can you please supply us with your properly accented names encoded in utf-8 so we can correct the entries in layman's overlay listings.
(In reply to comment #5) > David, Wojciech can you please supply us with your properly accented names > encoded in utf-8 so we can correct the entries in layman's overlay listings. There you go, that's U+00E1, UTF-8 c3a1. David E. Narváez
(In reply to comment #5) > cc'ing overlay maintainers that have incorrectly accented names entered in > repositories.xml. > > David, Wojciech can you please supply us with your properly accented names > encoded in utf-8 so we can correct the entries in layman's overlay listings. That's Wojciech Dzierżanowski. I presume it's just about encoding problems with repositories.xml and no further action is required of me. This http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/wdzierzan.git;a=summary looks fine, and my e-mail client also claims it sent the overlay request message to overlays at gentoo dot org in UTF-8 encoding.
Thank you. That is correct, no further action is needed by you. I've fixed and committed the last two corrected accented names to repositories.xml. So your names will appear correctly now in layman -i output once you have the updated list. It was most likely caused by someone committing changes whose editor was not correctly set to utf-8, so as a result there were several names that were incorrect in utf-8. Closing as I found no other apparent incorrect names with "&#...;" embedded in them.
