Re: Links to accented anchors

[Graham Percival]

Thanks for the report, added as
    http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1036

Note that this is type-Build, priority-Postponed, so don't expect any
movement on the issue for at least 6 months.

Sorry,
- Graham


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Francisco Vila <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello. This is for perl gurus or people who know texi2html well. My
> aim is to state the existence of a bug, as a remainder for the future.
> I myself would fix it if I knew how to.
>
> Currently, some links to anchors in bigpage HTML docs, in all three
> es/fr/de languages, v2.13, do not work as expected, these are the
> symptoms.
>
> for example in out-www/offline-root////Documentation/notation-big-page.es.html
> , let's go to NR1 from the index to appreciate the problem.
>
> To generate anchor and links, different methods seem to exist:
>
> - index entries and menus link to translated section names, but a bug
> makes these names to crop two characters shorter if the original has
> an accented letter. This smells to an utf-8 confusion between
> characters and bytes.
>
> for example
>
>  
> out-www/offline-root////Documentation/notation-big-page.es.html#Notacion-music
>
> for NR 1 Notación Musical
>
> - in the page itself, each section has two anchors, and sometimes none
> of them match the link as explained above. One is just before the
> next/previous menu for that section, and has accented characters hex
> encoded, as in
>
>  notation-big-page.es.html#Notaci_00f3n-musical
>
> The other is in English, just after the section next/previous menu, as in
>
>  notation-big-page.es.html#Musical-notation
>
>
> To summarize, the HTML code is in our example
>
> <a name="Notaci_00f3n-musical"></a>
> <table class="nav_table"> ...</table>
> <a name="Musical-notation"></a>
> <h1 class="chapter">1. Notación musical</h1>
>
> but the link from the index is
>
> <a name="toc-Notacion-musical"
> href="notation-big-page.es.html#Notacion-music">1. Notación
> musical</a> etc.
>
> Same for every node with accented characters.  Split HTML docs do not
> suffer from this in such a bad way, because the html file is correctly
>  specified from the link; therefore, only accented anchors into an
> HTML file show the problem.
>
> Also, 2.12 docs are OK but all links and anchors are in English, so no
> problem here.
> --
> Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
> www.paconet.org , www.csmbadajoz.com
>
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