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Fix Changelog error on Non-encoded Commit Trailers

Olaoluwa Oluro requested to merge 467945-changelog-api-raises-exception-on-non-ascii-content-in-commit-trailers into master

What does this MR do and why?

Fix Changelog error on Non-encoded Commit Trailers

Problem

When a commit message is made with non-Ascii characters in the trailers, the changelog API returns a 500 when retrieved.

Solution

Ensure non-Ascii characters in commit trailers are encoded

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Create an empty gitlab project
  2. Create an initial commit
  3. Create a second commit that contains a non-ascii character and also add a non-ascii trailer for example
Äpfel

Changelog: Äpfel
  1. See the changelog API return a 500 error, see the exception in the logfile.

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