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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+cgit about-filter: renders README.md as HTML with Pygments syntax highlighting.
+
+cgit calls this script with the readme filename as argv[1] and file content on stdin.
+Output is HTML written to stdout.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import re
+import markdown
+from pygments import highlight
+from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name, TextLexer
+from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
+from pygments.util import ClassNotFound
+
+
+def highlight_code_blocks(html):
+    def replacer(match):
+        lang = match.group(1) or ""
+        code = match.group(2)
+        # Unescape HTML entities from markdown output
+        code = code.replace("&amp;", "&").replace("&lt;", "<").replace("&gt;", ">").replace("&quot;", '"')
+        try:
+            lexer = get_lexer_by_name(lang.strip(), stripnl=False) if lang.strip() else TextLexer(stripnl=False)
+        except ClassNotFound:
+            lexer = TextLexer(stripnl=False)
+        formatter = HtmlFormatter(nowrap=True, cssclass="highlight", noclasses=False)
+        highlighted = highlight(code, lexer, formatter)
+        return f'<pre><code class="highlight">{highlighted}</code></pre>'
+
+    # Match <pre><code class="language-LANG"> or <pre><code>
+    pattern = re.compile(
+        r'<pre><code(?:\s+class="language-([^"]*)")?>(.*?)</code></pre>',
+        re.DOTALL
+    )
+    return pattern.sub(replacer, html)
+
+
+content = sys.stdin.read()
+html = markdown.markdown(content, extensions=["fenced_code", "tables", "toc"])
+print(highlight_code_blocks(html))