[HTTPS-Everywhere] Ruleset Name Character Encoding

[Drake, Brian]

Someone else got there first:

https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/76

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 0619 (UTC), Drake, Brian <brian at drakefamily.tk>wrote:

> I downloaded UPV.cz.xml and Zurcher_Kantonalbank.xml from Git.
>
> When I opened them in Notepad, they were fine.
>
> When I opened them in WordPad, the names were garbled in a similar way to
> the HTTPS Everywhere preferences window.
>
> I think the problem in both cases is that it is trying to read text as
> ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 when it is actually UTF-8.
>
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 0525 (UTC), Drake, Brian <brian at drakefamily.tk>wrote:
>
>> Anyone who has HTTPS Everywhere 3.4.5 (currently the latest stable
>> version), try opening the “Enable / Disable Rules” page and scrolling down
>> to the end of the list. The last ruleset listed should be the one from
>> UPV.cz.xml, but the name listed here looks very different (this ruleset
>> disabled by default because the certificate self-signed). Right-click on
>> this and select “View XML Source” (warning: this retrieves the source from
>> a server over the Internet). Compare the names in the list and in the XML
>> source.
>>
>> There’s only one version of that file, so it’s not because the name has
>> changed. I assume there is a character encoding bug somewhere.
>>
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