Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
Hello, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Jack wrote: [..] >Found it. It is "middle dot" U+00B7 which in UTF-8 two bytes of octal 302 >267 or hex C2 8E. > >Also, now that I look at the page source, I see "Introduction to >Metaprogramming in Nim HookRace Blog" so I do wonder if it >is something funny with the character coding with iso88591. In fact, it does >look like that unicode point it NOT available in iso88591. I wonder what the >proper fall-back should be in such a case. It is available, but it seems the locale is not used for encoding filenames. man 7 latin1 Oct Dec Hex Char Description 267 183 B7 ยท MIDDLE DOT -dnh -- >> This needs quotes: >> use lib "/path/to/perl/modules"; > Single or double quotes? Yes. -- Tad McClellan in comp.lang.perl.misc
Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
On 2020.11.25 13:08, Jack wrote: On 2020.11.25 07:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I have to 'xkill' it What can I do about this? (My locale is en_US.iso88591) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Both Firefox and Chromium (KDE) save for me with no complaints, and "ls -b" calls that character 302 267, which shows up as a vertically centered dot, but I haven't figured out exactly what character it is. I have en_US.UTF-8. Found it. It is "middle dot" U+00B7 which in UTF-8 two bytes of octal 302 267 or hex C2 8E. Also, now that I look at the page source, I see "Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim HookRace Blog" so I do wonder if it is something funny with the character coding with iso88591. In fact, it does look like that unicode point it NOT available in iso88591. I wonder what the proper fall-back should be in such a case.
Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
On 2020.11.25 07:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I have to 'xkill' it What can I do about this? (My locale is en_US.iso88591) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Both Firefox and Chromium (KDE) save for me with no complaints, and "ls -b" calls that character 302 267, which shows up as a vertically centered dot, but I haven't figured out exactly what character it is. I have en_US.UTF-8. Jack
Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
On 25/11/2020 07:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I have to 'xkill' it What can I do about this? (My locale is en_US.iso88591) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut This may be your window manager. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:24:13 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like > hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) > several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from > it. I have no chance to change the filename. > I have to 'xkill' it I suspect this is a problem with the file dialog rather than the browser. FWIW it worked fine with Chromium on KDE here. -- Neil Bothwick Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside. pgpUlC3XQdwAS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters
Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I have to 'xkill' it What can I do about this? (My locale is en_US.iso88591) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut
