[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] api: apt: Return valid utf8 on update

[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] api: apt: Return valid utf8 on update

[Maximiliano Sandoval]

The following call could result in a broken encoding when a package
description contains unicode characters.

    pvesh get /nodes/localhost/apt/update

One potential example of such a package was libnbd0 where the character
'—' (em dash) was rendered as 'â'.

The file at /var/lib/pve-manager/pkgupdates would also have the wrong
encoding.

This patch fixes both issues.

Reported-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval@proxmox.com>
---

One unfortunate problem for reproducing this issue is that this particular
package is already on the latest version on the Proxmox VE 9.0 iso.

 PVE/API2/APT.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/APT.pm b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
index 0d07cf38..27842aa6 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/APT.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ my $assemble_pkginfo = sub {
     if (my $desc = $info->{LongDesc}) {
         $desc =~ s/^.*\n\s?//; # remove first line
         $desc =~ s/\n / /g;
-        $data->{Description} = $desc;
+        $data->{Description} = decode('UTF-8', $desc);
     }
 
     foreach my $k (qw(Section Arch Priority)) {
-- 
2.47.3



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[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH manager] api: apt: Return valid utf8 on update

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:49:29 +0200, Maximiliano Sandoval wrote:
> The following call could result in a broken encoding when a package
> description contains unicode characters.
> 
>     pvesh get /nodes/localhost/apt/update
> 
> One potential example of such a package was libnbd0 where the character
> '—' (em dash) was rendered as 'â'.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] api: apt: Return valid utf8 on update
      commit: 8b8917c7c8d3072c7394947d5a3f7713ecbc34ab


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