Documentation Primer typos, etc.

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 17 de març de 2020, a les 10:08:18 CET, Yuri Chornoivan va escriure:
> 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...

Fixed, the server was calling meinproc with an empty LANG environment variable and that made meinproc do weird things.

Took me a while to figure out :)

Cheers,
  Albert

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> Best regards,
> Yuri
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