Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:10:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what are these characters please? Message-ID: <3CB633FB.3B268A0@mindspring.com> References: <20020411113858.E48BB3F30@bast.unixathome.org> <3CB5F189.3DEA9304@mindspring.com> <a94vme$2rd8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > An "escape" character *is* a valid ISO-8859-1 character. > > It is a control character, which is certainly not valid in this > application context. It's not validly renderable by an HTML browser. The problem is the conversion of the data file, whose format is unspecified, into HTML. If you were to cat this data to a "World21" console or even, I believe, "kterm", then it would display as it was intended. So the problem is the imperfect conversion of what's stored, not the fact that the data is stored. If you want to make a rule that CVS log entries must be made in HTML, then you can make that rule. Without such a rule, though, you get what you get. It's arguable that the ISO-8859-1 restriction is wrong, as well, and that there should be special provision for attachments (e.g. the log should be treated as RFC 2045 message bodies of type message/rfc822). The specific problem in this case is that someone pasted some valid binary data, without attributing the encoding, so that the encoding could be normalized to UTF-8 encoded Unicode, so that browsers would have all necessary information to render it. It seems that the complaint about the data is more kicking and screaming that there aren't any rules on commit message encoding and contents. CVS provides mechanisms which would allow you to reject commit messages containing anything other than printable US ASCII. AFAICT, though, the horse has already left the barn, unless there is going to be repository surgery to normalize the already denormal data. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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