Maybe you'd better. You're not making any sense to me, which
could mean
either that you are being stupid, or that I am being stupid, or that we
are talking right past one another. We'd better figure out which :-).
One of the fields handed to the CGI may be a URL pointing to an RPM.
It seems to me that the encoding of strings *in the RPM* is not an issue at
all for bug-bugzilla. Only the contents of the fields in the job card
is an issue. I don't understand why the requirement that those be UTF-8
should ever be onerous.
b/c the content you're providing may well be data that is in an rpm
header or in the output of rpm -qi somepkg.
as the example I gave to Nicholas, rpm -qi cups - read the description
field, note the (R), notice that's it is 1 character, not 3.
your program can force the conversion and replace the characters outside
the 128 range with ?, but in the case of filenames that are using
non-utf-8 encoding you WILL lose some data.
That's all I'm saying.
-sv