More Plugin API Encoding Issues

[bpetty]

The contributors section for this Russian plugin is causing some issues, but the plugin's actual encoding appears to be all valid UTF-8:

​http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/orthodoxcalendarru.json

The plugin has contributors using same encoding the tags are in, and tags work fine... so whatever tags are doing, it should work for contributors.

It's also interesting to note that it's getting the same treatment in the API that actual usernames get when the API detects that it's an actual wp.org username with a profile, but it's definitely not even a valid username, so something is confused there.

[obenland]

The plugin shows up fine in my test install, I wonder if any issue that existed was fixed when the directory was updated recently. Are there any more details on the issues here?

[tellyworth]

I'm not sure if it's the same as the original issue, but the contributors are not listed on the plugin page because those in the readme are not valid w.org usernames.

We could do a better job of displaying something helpful when this is the case - perhaps an error message shown to the owner.

[dd32]

Perhaps we can add a warning to the readme validator when it detects Contributors listed which aren't valid.

We're not going to import any contributor listed which can't be linked to a WordPress.org user here.

Also, worth noting, here's the output for the v1.2 API which is slightly different from the linked response: ​https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/?action=plugin_information&request[slug]=orthodoxcalendarru

[dd32]

In 7021:

Plugin Directory: Readme Validator: Add a warning when a contributor in the readme is ignored.

Fixes #249.