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Documentation problem: odd characters in ASCII text format manual

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Message #16 received at 77012-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Giacomo De Bello <giacomodebello <at> hotmail.it>
Cc: savannah-hackers <at> gnu.org, 77012-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77012: Documentation problem: odd characters in ASCII text
 format manual
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:59:05 -0700

Thanks for the further investigation. I solved the problem for grep by 
installing the following patch, and am closing the bug report.

https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/grep/grep/.htaccess?r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Presumably GNU project web pages should routinely have .htaccess files 
that say something like this:

  <Files "*.txt">
    AddDefaultCharset utf-8
    ForceType text/plain
  </Files>

as the old Windows-1252 default no longer makes sense. I'll take a look 
at doing this for the projects I help maintain.

Alternatively (and more efficiently) this could be addressed by changing 
the Apache configuration on Savannah; however, I lack admin access for that.

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