gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/changelogs/unreleased/allow-resolving-conflicts-in-utf-8.yml

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title: Fix conflict resolution when files contain valid UTF-8 characters
merge_request:
author:
Allow resolving conflicts with non-ASCII chars We wanted to check that the text could be encoded as JSON, because conflict resolutions are passed back and forth in that format, so the file itself must be UTF-8. However, all strings from the repository come back without an encoding from Rugged, making them ASCII_8BIT. We force to UTF-8, and reject if it's invalid. This still leaves the problem of a file that 'looks like' UTF-8 (contains valid UTF-8 byte sequences), but isn't. However: 1. If the conflicts contain the problem bytes, the user will see that the file isn't displayed correctly. 2. If the problem bytes are outside of the conflict area, then we will write back the same bytes when we resolve the conflicts, even though we though the encoding was UTF-8. 2017-03-14 10:06:26 -04:00			`---`
			`title: Fix conflict resolution when files contain valid UTF-8 characters`
			`merge_request:`
			`author:`