NGINX, FastCGI, UTF-8 Encoding: Output iso-8859-1 instead of utf8
although you aren't using PHP, I found the fix for my issue but wrapping the pieces that were being exposed as ISO-8859-1 with: utf8_encode(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php
If your CGI is in PERL, maybe http://perldoc.perl.org/utf8.html will solve your problem. It solved mine ... Z�rich
Another option could be to add the following to the http { } statement in your nginx.conf:
charset utf-8;-sd
I can make it works by using fcgiwrap.
I though some environment variables where different between the two methods, so I added the following code to the gitweb.cgi dispatch() sub:
open my $tmplogfile, ">", "/tmp/gitweb-env.txt"; foreach my $varkey (sort keys %ENV) { print $tmplogfile "$varkey = $ENV{$varkey}\n"; } close $tmplogfile;but the environment were the same.
Something may be done by fcgiwrap, I do not yet found what.
Here are the commands I use and the differences I found using tcpdump on the fcgi socket:
# gitweb spawned by fcgiwrap outputs utf-8/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -d /usr/share/gitweb -a 127.0.0.1 -p 3000 -u www-data -g gitolite -P /run/gitweb/gitweb.cgi.pid -- /usr/sbin/fcgiwrap# Require the following nginx gitweb_fastcgi_params# fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;# fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;# fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;# fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;# With the following nginx configuration# upstream gitweb {# server 127.0.0.1:3000;# }# # server {# listen 80;# # server_name git.example.net;## root /usr/share/gitweb;## access_log /var/log/nginx/gitweb-access.log;# error_log /var/log/nginx/gitweb-errors.log;# # location / {# alias /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi;# include gitweb_fastcgi_params;# fastcgi_pass gitweb;# }# # location /static {# alias /usr/share/gitweb/static;# expires 31d;# }# }# STDOUT captured on lo# Begin of the FCGI answer# 00000000 01 06 00 01 1f f8 00 00 53 74 61 74 75 73 3a 20 ........ Status: # 00000010 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 0d 0a 43 6f 6e 74 65 6e 74 2d 200 OK.. Content-# 00000020 54 79 70 65 3a 20 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f Type: ap plicatio# 00000030 6e 2f 78 68 74 6d 6c 2b 78 6d 6c 3b 20 63 68 61 n/xhtml+ xml; cha# 00000040 72 73 65 74 3d 75 74 66 2d 38 0d 0a 0d 0a 3c 3f rset=utf -8....<?# 00000050 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 3d 22 31 2e 30 xml vers ion="1.0# [...]## "Guido Günther" as UTF-8# 00000FA0 6c 65 3d 22 53 65 61 72 63 68 20 66 6f 72 20 63 le="Sear ch for c# 00000FB0 6f 6d 6d 69 74 73 20 61 75 74 68 6f 72 65 64 20 ommits a uthored # 00000FC0 62 79 20 47 75 69 64 6f 20 47 c3 bc 6e 74 68 65 by Guido G..nthe# 00000FD0 72 22 20 63 6c 61 73 73 3d 22 6c 69 73 74 22 20 r" class ="list" Before, gitweb --fastcgi was directly spawned by spawn-fcgi:
# gitweb spawned by spawn-fcgi outputs iso-8859-1/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -d /usr/share/gitweb -a 127.0.0.1 -p 3000 -u www-data -g gitolite -P /run/gitweb/gitweb.cgi.pid -- /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi --fastcgi# STDOUT captured on lo# Begin of the FCGI answer with "00 46 02" in place of "1f f8 00" for utf-8 output# 00000000 01 06 00 01 00 46 02 00 53 74 61 74 75 73 3a 20 .....F.. Status: # 00000010 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 0d 0a 43 6f 6e 74 65 6e 74 2d 200 OK.. Content-# 00000020 54 79 70 65 3a 20 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f Type: ap plicatio# 00000030 6e 2f 78 68 74 6d 6c 2b 78 6d 6c 3b 20 63 68 61 n/xhtml+ xml; cha# 00000040 72 73 65 74 3d 75 74 66 2d 38 0d 0a 0d 0a 00 00 rset=utf -8......# 00000050 01 06 00 01 02 88 00 00 3c 3f 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 ........ <?xml ve# 00000060 72 73 69 6f 6e 3d 22 31 2e 30 22 20 65 6e 63 6f rsion="1 .0" enco# 00000070 64 69 6e 67 3d 22 75 74 66 2d 38 22 3f 3e 0a 3c ding="ut f-8"?>.<# [...]## "Guido Günther" as ISO-8859-1# 00001128 74 6c 65 3d 22 53 65 61 72 63 68 20 66 6f 72 20 tle="Sea rch for # 00001138 63 6f 6d 6d 69 74 73 20 61 75 74 68 6f 72 65 64 commits authored# 00001148 20 62 79 20 47 75 69 64 6f 20 47 fc 6e 74 68 65 by Guid o G.nthe