Documentation Primer typos, etc.

Yuri Chornoivan yurchor at ukr.net
Tue Mar 17 09:08:18 GMT 2020


понеділок, 16 березня 2020 р. 08:38:38 EET ви написали:
> неділя, 15 березня 2020 р. 23:44:08 EET John Hayes написано:
> > On Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:31:49 PM CDT David Bryant wrote:
> > > On Sunday, March 15, 2020 3:08:05 PM CDT Jack Ostroff wrote:
> > > > Something seems odd.  I only get a result with
> > > > https://l10n.kde.org/docs/doc-primer/check-docs.html (note the added
> > > > "l" at then end)
> > > 
> > > I took a look at the html source in page
> > > https://l10n.kde.org/docs/doc-primer/index.html
> > > 
> > > About half-way through the document I see this:
> > > 
> > > <a href="check-docs.htm✺l">Checking and Viewing the Documents</a>
> > > 
> > > where "✺" is actually an unprintable character -- I'm just guessing
> > > here,
> > > but I think it's X'EFBFBD', based on John Haynes's original post in this
> > > thread. That's not a valid code point in UTF-8.
> > > 
> > > I have no idea how it got inserted into the html code, which is
> > > generated
> > > by an XML processor from a .docbook source document. All that stuff
> > > really ought to be straight 7-bit ASCII characters, for the most part.
> > > The URL for the destination page was rendered correctly (without 3 bytes
> > > of hex garbage) by the same XML processor. Cosmic rays, maybe?
> > > 
> > > I posted a picture of the way Firefox renders this bit of code on my web
> > > site, just in case anyone wants to look at it. Visit
> > > 
> > > https://davidcbryant.net/images/WeirdUTF-8.png
> > > 
> > > if you're curious.
> > > 
> > > Interestingly,  I can't even copy and paste the unprintable character. I
> > > suppose that's because it's not a valid UTF-8 character ... when
> > > scanning
> > > text input, the "copy" function probably stops when it hits something
> > > unrecognizable.
> > > 
> > > David Bryant
> > > Canyon Lake, Texas
> > 
> > I took a look and it is definitely weird looking, so this is fixed now?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > John
> 
> That's a "replacement character":
> 
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm
> 
> My guess is that it's insertion is some kind of a result of line-breaking on
> our server.
> 
> It is not fixed now. I'll try to replace section header to shift the
> replacement character.
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri

And yes, the replacement character is shifted now. That means that nothing I 
can do and the problem is on the server side...

Best regards,
Yuri





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