Sun Jul  3 21:10:21 UTC 2005  Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
  UNDO: Change an encode/decode pair to support Python 2.3
  Skip decoding of an unicode string before encoding it in utf8, since it's not
  supported by python 2.3
  
  I have my doubts regarding this patch because I'm not sure removing the
  decoding won't cause problems, but it went fine on my testing here using
  latin1 and utf8 characters. I'd love to test it under a different encoding,
  but I don't know any non-latin1 languages.
diff -rN -u old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi
--- old-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2015-11-21 14:24:42.000000000 +0000
+++ new-darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi	2015-11-21 14:24:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 	if openpos < 0:
 		# small optimization to avoid the conversion to utf8 and
 		# entering the loop
-		return s.encode('utf8')
+		return s.decode(config.repoencoding).encode('utf8')
 
 	s = s.encode(config.repoencoding).decode('raw_unicode_escape')
 	while openpos >= 0: