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| Bug #3620 | CRITICAL: non-ISO-8859-1 characters in package.xml must be entitied | ||
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| Submitted: | 2005-02-27 23:51 UTC | ||
| From: | danielc | Assigned: | dufuz |
| Status: | Closed | Package: | Benchmark |
| PHP Version: | Irrelevant | OS: | n/a |
| Roadmaps: | (Not assigned) | ||
[2005-02-27 23:51 UTC] danielc
Description:
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Helgi's name in the notes is the problem...
Your package.xml file contains characters outside the ISO-8859-1 character set (for example, letters with umlats, tildes etc). This causes problems when people install your program using the new 1.4.x series of PEAR. It is very important this issue be addressed as soon as possible. How you address it depends on how you create your package.xml files:
a) If you generate your package via PEAR_PackageFileManager, upgrade your version of PEAR to 1.4.0a2 then re-run the packge file manger script. The new version of PEAR should automatically take care of the character conversions.
b) If you write your package.xml files by hand, locate the problematic characters in the file and replace them with "entities." Examples:
o with an umlat = ö
n with a tilde = ñ
A list of the most common entities can be found at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/0.1/iso-lat1.ent
If the characters you need aren't in that list, go to
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xmlcharent/0.1/index.shtml
and look at the other entity lists.
Once the problematic characters have been replaced with entities in the package.xml file, please commit it to CVS and make a new release as soon as possible. If you do not do this, users will recieve the following error:
CRITICAL ERROR: package.xml downloaded does
not match value returned from xml-rpc
Thanks.
Comments
[2005-02-28 19:43 UTC] dufuz
why was I assigned to this bug since I've nothing to do with the package ?
Plus the username is dufuz.
[2005-02-28 20:21 UTC] sebastian
Because I do not know how to escape the characters in your name, sorry.
[2005-02-28 20:42 UTC] dufuz
Yeah sure no problem, just found this bug by "accident" :-)
it's Helgi Þormar at least that's how PFM does it.
Wasn't my name only in one of the changelogs ?
[2005-03-01 07:00 UTC] sebastian
This bug has been fixed in CVS.
In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up at the
end of next Sunday (CET) on pear.php.net.
In case this was a pear.php.net website problem, the change will show
up on the website in short time.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PEAR better.