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Created November 1, 2021 16:45
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GitWeb wrapper to fix UTF-8 in FastCGI (no longer needed in Debian Bullseye)
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gitweb.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl
# gitweb.cgi wrapper that fixes the UTF-8 problem with fastcgi
# Local redefinition of FCGI::Stream::PRINT
use Encode;
use FCGI;
our $enc = Encode::find_encoding('UTF-8');
our $org = \&FCGI::Stream::PRINT;
no warnings 'redefine';
local *FCGI::Stream::PRINT = sub {
my @OUTPUT = @_;
for (my $i = 1; $i < @_; $i++) {
$OUTPUT[$i] = $enc->encode($_[$i], Encode::FB_CROAK|Encode::LEAVE_SRC);
}
@_ = @OUTPUT;
goto $org;
};
# Execute original script
do "/usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi";
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See lucaswerkmeister/server-etc@0d35bc6 and lucaswerkmeister/server-etc@5d38a30.

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Original source was apparently https://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Gitweb-running-as-FCGI-does-not-print-its-output-in-UTF-8-td7573415.html (archived).

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