Hi,
I've noticed that the PDF manual for the current VBox version contains a few
issues. Mostly they fall into the following categories:
- sequences "fi" are replaced with the ligature fi;
- same with "fl" replaced with fl;
- many Unicode symbols apparently were converted using the incorrect encoding,
like "â˘A¸S" instead of a short dash symbol, or "¢a" instead of some spaces
(probably, non-breaking spaces);
- some internal tag that doesn't look like it should be there (see below).
While the first two could, in principle, be considered a feature rather than a
bug (I've seen some services where these replacements were deliberate), the
encoding garbage is obviously wrong. Here are a few examples for you to see
them by yourselves:
a) page 156:
> VBoxManage modifyvm < uuid | vmname > [ --teleporter= on | off ]
> [ --teleporter-port=port ] [ --teleporter-address= address | empty ]
> [ --teleporter-password=password ] [ --teleporter-password-file= filename
> | stdin ] [ --cpuid-portability-level=level ] [ --cpuid-set=leaf [ :subleaf ]
> eax¢aebx¢aecx¢aedx ] [ --cpuid-remove=leaf [ :subleaf ] ]
> [ --cpuid-remove-all ]
(instead of spaces inside "eax ebx...")
b) page 189, description of the option "--nic<N>=none"; all the dash lines
after
the value names:
> none â˘A¸S No networking present
> null â˘A¸S Not connected to the host system
etc.
c) page 432, names with diacritics:
> Viktor SzathmÃ˛ary
instead of
> Viktor Szathmáry
and so on.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what could be the reason for this. I noticed this
only after I have built my own version of VBox from sources, and decided to
compare my PDF with the officially distributed one. If that's of any help, I was
building everything in a Windows 10 machine, using, among others:
* MiKTeX 23.5 package
* DocBook XML DTD 4.5
* DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.71.0
Also I had to make some changes in doc/manual/Config.kmk (otherwise the build
failed miserably), but the changes were about file path formats, like c:/...,
file:///c:/... and so on; nothing to do with encodings. But if you wish, I can
send them to you.
And as for the final issue, check the page 471, 17.2.26 DocBook XML DTD
License. In
the middle of the text you'll see the line:
> $Id: user_ThirdParty.xml 155244 2023-01-17 14:15:46Z bird $
I don't think it was intended to be there.
All this was checked with version 7.0.10. I also took a quick look at 7.0.0,
and
all the same issues are present there. However, in 6.1.46 I could not find
anything of the sort. Therefore, it seems, the breaking change happened
somewhere during the switch to the major version 7.
P. S. I should have probably created a ticket in the bugtracker, but I can't
login into my Oracle account for some reason, and the recovery emails are not
delivered. Maybe because of the "ru" domain...
--
Bye. With best regards,
Konstantin Vlasov.
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