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  1. Lustre Documentation
  2. LUDOC-7

character set problems in HTML manual

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • Minor
    • None
    • None
    • Mac OS/X 10.6.6 + Firefox 3.6.17
      Fedora 13 + Firefox 3.5.15
    • 1
    • 3
    • 7203

    Description

      There are a large number of "unknown" characters in the HTML version of the Lustre manual. On my system they appear as black diamonds with a question mark like '�'.

      For example, the copyright (C) character right at the start of the manual, and all of the accented characters in the Oracle boilerplate are shown this way, along with the hard-space (I guess) character in every section and subsection title is shown this way.

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          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. LUDOC-192 Lustre manual doesn't open in some browsers

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. LUDOC-217 Lustre manual should be indexed by google

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Closed

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            [LUDOC-7] character set problems in HTML manual
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Link New: This issue is related to LUDOC-217 [ LUDOC-217 ]
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Link New: This issue is related to LUDOC-192 [ LUDOC-192 ]
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Status Original: Resolved [ 5 ] New: Closed [ 6 ]
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Resolution New: Won't Fix [ 2 ]
            Status Original: In Progress [ 3 ] New: Resolved [ 5 ]
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) added a comment -

            We won't be fixing this. The xhtml version renders fine - and that version is the one that is most commonly linked to.

            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) added a comment - We won't be fixing this. The xhtml version renders fine - and that version is the one that is most commonly linked to.
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Status Original: Open [ 1 ] New: In Progress [ 3 ]
            adilger Andreas Dilger added a comment - - edited

            Sadly, this doesn't work:

            legalnoticeOracle.xml:17: parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined
            <para>Copyright &copy; 2011, Oracle et/ou ses affili&eacute;s. Tous droits
            ^
            legalnoticeOracle.xml:17: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined
            <para>Copyright &copy; 2011, Oracle et/ou ses affili&eacute;s. Tous droits

            adilger Andreas Dilger added a comment - - edited Sadly, this doesn't work: legalnoticeOracle.xml:17: parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined <para>Copyright &copy; 2011, Oracle et/ou ses affili&eacute;s. Tous droits ^ legalnoticeOracle.xml:17: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined <para>Copyright &copy; 2011, Oracle et/ou ses affili&eacute;s. Tous droits
            adilger Andreas Dilger added a comment -

            http://review.whamcloud.com/7739

            Some non-ASCII characters, such as accented letters, copyright (c),
            and single quotes (rather than apostrophes) were being rendered
            incorrectly in the HTML version of the manual, because of confusion
            between character sets (UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1).

            Instead of using the encoded characters directly in the manual,
            use the HTML escape sequences such as ©, à, etc.
            These can be rendered correctly for both the HTML and PDF manuals.

            This doesn't resolve the use of ISO-8859-1 hard spaces in the titles,
            but at least fixes the most visible mess at the start of the manual.

            adilger Andreas Dilger added a comment - http://review.whamcloud.com/7739 Some non-ASCII characters, such as accented letters, copyright (c), and single quotes (rather than apostrophes) were being rendered incorrectly in the HTML version of the manual, because of confusion between character sets (UTF-8 vs. ISO-8859-1). Instead of using the encoded characters directly in the manual, use the HTML escape sequences such as ©, à, etc. These can be rendered correctly for both the HTML and PDF manuals. This doesn't resolve the use of ISO-8859-1 hard spaces in the titles, but at least fixes the most visible mess at the start of the manual.
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) made changes -
            Link New: This issue is related to IT-220 [ IT-220 ]
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) added a comment -

            The config of the webserver is both:

            • making browsers render some characters incorrectly.
            • prohibiting the manual appearing on search engine results.
            rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive) added a comment - The config of the webserver is both: making browsers render some characters incorrectly. prohibiting the manual appearing on search engine results.

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              rhenwood Richard Henwood (Inactive)
              adilger Andreas Dilger
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