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Normalize Student Encoding for Plagiarism Check

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

If students use special characters in their solution and thus destroy the file encoding, the plagiarism detection crashes without a frontend error (the errors are only visible in the backend log).

A possible solution and remedy would be that after the student solutions have been cloned, but before JPlag is started, the files are all normalized. There are already methods for this: fileService.normalizeLineEndingsDirectory and fileService.convertToUTF8Directory .

Describe the solution you’d like

Possible solution described above.

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Created 2 years ago
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Comments:12 (12 by maintainers)

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dfuchsscommented, Jul 20, 2021

I’ll create an example 😃

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kruschecommented, Jan 6, 2022

This issue was fixed by #4453

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