On Wednesday 17 December 2003 19:10, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jakub Vrana wrote:
> > vrana Wed Dec 17 11:35:45 2003 EDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > /phpdoc/en/reference/recode reference.xml
> > Log:
> > Version 3.6, warning with reference to bugs 17154 and 19776
>
> From what I know is that 3.5 works just fine, bug 3.6 is buggy (trailing
> garbage for example). So please add *that* to the manual instead of this
> bogus requirement.
>
> Derick
If the following patch suit our needs, I will commit.
Friedhelm
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RCS file: /repository/phpdoc/en/reference/recode/reference.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 reference.xml
--- reference.xml 17 Dec 2003 16:35:45 -0000 1.8
+++ reference.xml 18 Dec 2003 23:17:46 -0000
@@ -8,33 +8,33 @@
<section id="recode.intro">
&reftitle.intro;
<para>
- This module contains an interface to the GNU Recode library,
- version 3.6. The GNU Recode library converts files between various coded
- character sets and surface encodings. When this cannot be
- achieved exactly, it may get rid of the offending characters or
- fall back on approximations. The library recognises or produces
- nearly 150 different character sets and is able to convert files
- between almost any pair.
- Most <ulink url="&url.rfc;1345">RFC 1345</ulink> character sets
- are supported.
+ This module contains an interface to the GNU Recode library. The GNU
+ Recode library converts files between various coded character sets and
+ surface encodings. When this cannot be achieved exactly, it may get rid
+ of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. The library
+ recognises or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able
to
+ convert files between almost any pair. Most
+ <ulink url="&url.rfc;1345">RFC 1345</ulink> character sets are
+ supported.
</para>
¬e.no-windows.extension;
- <warning>
- <para>
- Recode library adds weird characters behind converted strings under
- certain circumstances. Thus it's safer to use
- <link linkend="ref.iconv">iconv</link> or
- <link linkend="ref.mbstring">mbstring</link> extension.
- </para>
- </warning>
</section>
<section id="recode.requirements">
&reftitle.required;
<para>
- You must have GNU Recode 3.6 or higher installed on your system.
+ You must have GNU Recode 3.5 or higher installed on your system.
You can download the package from <ulink
url="&url.recode;">here</ulink>.
</para>
+ <warning>
+ <para>
+ The Recode library version 3.6 adds weird characters behind converted
+ strings under certain circumstances. Thus it's safer to use Recode v3.5
+ or one of the available alternatives like the
+ <link linkend="ref.iconv">iconv</link> or
+ <link linkend="ref.mbstring">mbstring</link> extension.
+ </para>
+ </warning>
</section>