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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-01-08 12:45:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-01-08 12:45:32 -0400 |
| commit | 6b4fc5e985ed96e14ebc89e67b373dd66c857bc5 (patch) | |
| tree | ae3df8f2b4f5bee6bc41b0b339e1277601044815 /doc | |
| parent | dc70490577892424bffe1f87b73a54adff6fb988 (diff) | |
view: Avoid using cute unicode homomorphs for '/' and '\' and instead use ugly escaping, as the unicode method doesn't work on non-unicode supporting systems.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view/comment_1_249d786ce15ab0c91191987c0bab76ef._comment | 24 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view.mdwn b/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view.mdwn index f43b61623..e52e2e5f7 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view.mdwn @@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ I was trying out the metadata extraction via libextractor and for the mimetype t Apart from this git-annex is working very well for me. I mostly use it as an archive, distributing numerous copies on various hard drives and cloud providers and keeping track of what is where.Its an amazing tool for that. - +> [[done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view/comment_1_249d786ce15ab0c91191987c0bab76ef._comment b/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view/comment_1_249d786ce15ab0c91191987c0bab76ef._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2cd288951 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/slash_in_metadata_breaks_field__61____42___view/comment_1_249d786ce15ab0c91191987c0bab76ef._comment @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2016-01-08T15:52:22Z" + content=""" +I was able to reproduce this problem, but only with LANG=C. It works in a +unicode locale. + +What's torpedoing this is a hack that it uses to handle "/" in a view. + + pseudoSlash :: Char + pseudoSlash = '\8725' -- '∕' /= '/' + +It's necessary that in a view, each viewed metadata component yield exactly one +level of directory hierarchy. Otherwise, it would be impossible to reverse +"a/b/c/file" when viewing on 2 metadata components -- +is that "a/b" and "c" or "a" and "b/c"? + +Which is why I used this cutsey hack, but yeah, it requires working +unicode support. + +Sigh, 2016 and still can't have nice things.. Suppose it'll have to use an +ugly encoding for them instead. +"""]] |