The "New Bug Report" form available from http://bugs.r-project.org/ appears to double encode the HTML of the "body" text area of the form. This behaviour can be seen in submission ID # 11515, where (as an example) "??" is converted to "Δ" in the browser view or "Δ" in the HTML source code. Conversion to "Δ" in the HTML source is sufficient to render "??" in the browser output.
Double HTML encoding in R Bug Tracking Submission form (PR#11517)
3 messages · mwtoews at sfu.ca, Peter Dalgaard
mwtoews at sfu.ca wrote:
The "New Bug Report" form available from http://bugs.r-project.org/ appears to double encode the HTML of the "body" text area of the form. This behaviour can be seen in submission ID # 11515, where (as an example) "??" is converted to "Δ" in the browser view or "Δ" in the HTML source code. Conversion to "Δ" in the HTML source is sufficient to render "??" in the browser output.
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Well, the repository handles emails, and the report form sends mail to the bug repository. The report form sends HTML codes without any indication that it is doing so, so the codes get rendered in the browser view. This latter part is actually correct behaviour since the alternative is to mangle all ampersands. So the main bug is that the report form is not mail-encoding the contents if non-ASCII. *However*, even with properly encoded mails, the browser view will not interpret the encoding, which is particularly annoying with quoted-printable (which uses the equal sign as an escape character and changes = to =3D). Also, see what happens with my signature which has a UTF-8 character inside. All in all, the whole mess indicates that the bug repository software is dying. It has long since been abandoned by its original author and it makes no sense for the R Core Team to make major changes to its internals. We've been wanting to move to something more mainstream for quite a while, but it takes some effort to find out how to move all the old pending and resolved reports across.
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:
mwtoews at sfu.ca wrote:
The "New Bug Report" form available from http://bugs.r-project.org/ appears to double encode the HTML of the "body" text area of the form. This behaviour can be seen in submission ID # 11515, where (as an example) "??" is converted to "Δ" in the browser view or "Δ" in the HTML source code. Conversion to "Δ" in the HTML source is sufficient to render "??" in the browser output.
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Well, the repository handles emails, and the report form sends mail to the bug repository. The report form sends HTML codes without any indication that it is doing so, so the codes get rendered in the browser view. This latter part is actually correct behaviour since the alternative is to mangle all ampersands. So the main bug is that the report form is not mail-encoding the contents if non-ASCII. *However*, even with properly encoded mails, the browser view will not interpret the encoding, which is particularly annoying with quoted-printable (which uses the equal sign as an escape character and changes = to =3D). Also, see what happens with my signature which has a UTF-8 character inside. All in all, the whole mess indicates that the bug repository software is dying. It has long since been abandoned by its original author and it makes no sense for the R Core Team to make major changes to its internals. We've been wanting to move to something more mainstream for quite a while, but it takes some effort to find out how to move all the old pending and resolved reports across.
(Not to mention the fact that, apparently, Thunderbird auto-wraps outgoing mail on SUSE and not on Fedora... *Sigh*. Sorry about that. You'd think that people could get this sort of stuff working after one score and seventeen years of email...)
O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907