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

Maximiliano Sandoval m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Tue Sep 2 16:53:44 CEST 2025


This was displayed wrongly on the web UI and when calling

    pvesh get /nodes/localhost/apt/changelog

One potential example of such a package was bind9-dnsutils where the
character `ř` was rendered as `Å`.

Reported-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner at proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/API2/APT.pm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/APT.pm b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
index bd651ba1..4de4cb5b 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/APT.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/APT.pm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use POSIX;
 use File::stat ();
 use IO::File;
 use File::Basename;
+use Encode qw(decode);
 
 use LWP::UserAgent;
 
@@ -418,7 +419,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
             timeout => 10,
             logfunc => sub {
                 my $line = shift;
-                $output .= "$line\n";
+                $output .= decode('UTF-8', $line) . "\n";
             },
             noerr => 1,
         );
-- 
2.47.2





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