Re: generate_html breaks documentation encoding

[Julien Bect]

Le 15/01/2015 23:13, Oliver Heimlich a écrit :
> The m-files are encoded in UTF-8 and most documentation strings 
> contain non-ASCII characters.
>
> The generate_html command somehow tries to convert the document 
> strings from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and labels the result as iso-8859-1 
> in the html header. This is wrong in at least two ways and the 
> resulting html page is broken.

Hello Oliver,

About the "iso-8859-1" in the HTML header: it depends on the option 
structure that you pass to generate_package_html (). If you use the 
"octave-forge" style, then yes, it is automatically labelled as 
"iso-8859-1"; see get_html_options ().

[everyone: I can add an optional field in the structure that would allow 
the package manager to specify the encoding that he wants. Any thoughts 
about that? Does it sound like a good idea?]

About the fact that "The generate_html command somehow tries to convert 
the document strings": I don't know about that. Can you provide a 
tarball for your package and give me a specific example of this conversion?

[everyone: does anybody know about this conversion? whee does this 
happen in the package?]

@++
Julien