dgit: When generating patch filenames from titles, first transliterate them (lossily) to ascii. Closes:#834807.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 469f6bf..7a4b391 100755
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -4146,6 +4146,16 @@ sub quiltify ($$$$) {
 	if (!defined $patchname) {
 	    $patchname = $title;
 	    $patchname =~ s/[.:]$//;
+            use Text::Iconv;
+	    eval {
+		my $converter = new Text::Iconv qw(UTF-8 ASCII//TRANSLIT);
+		my $translitname = $converter->convert($patchname);
+		die unless defined $translitname;
+		$patchname = $translitname;
+	    };
+	    print STDERR
+		"dgit: patch title transliteration error: $@"
+		if $@;
 	    $patchname =~ y/ A-Z/-a-z/;
 	    $patchname =~ y/-a-z0-9_.+=~//cd;
 	    $patchname =~ s/^\W/x-$&/;