git_info on beta borks non-ASCII characters in tooltip

    • Type: Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Normal
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    • Component/s: User interface
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      It looks like the Bash script git_info is called to generate the data shown at the bottom-right area of the beta instance, which appears under the "Brought to you by..." line and looks like:

      Running: branch (commit) See all tickets in beta testing.

      Hovering over the branch & commit info then gives you a tooltip showing you who wrote that commit, when, and the first line of that commit's message.

      Unfortunately, that last part seems to poorly handle non-ASCII text. For example, the current commit hash of what's in beta at the time of writing is df0227f52e. When running the git command listed for the "msg" argument in that script locally (while checked out to that commit), I get this in my terminal, which is the expected state:

      Last commit by Nicolás Tamargo on 2026-04-27: Merge branch 'translations' into beta

      Unfortunately, somewhere in the build and output process, there's an issue that leads to the following tooltip content in beta, where it chokes on the á in Nicolás:

      I ran the errant text through a couple of mojibake decoders, and the results suggest that this issue occurs due to UTF-8 characters being interpreted as Windows-1252 or Latin-1 during decoding (depending on the tooling used during decoding).

            Assignee:
            Michael Wiencek
            Reporter:
            julian45
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