Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Bug in Datatracker Agenda Code?

Ryan Cross <rcross@amsl.com> Wed, 21 March 2012 14:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [iola-conversion-tool] Bug in Datatracker Agenda Code?
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Hi Henrik,

On Mar 5, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

>  3. Even after I fixed the things above, I went 'round and 'round a couple
>     of times, as I only saw a blank space where the agenda should have
>     been.  This seems to have been caused by the uploaded document having
>     a mac character set encoding and mac line-endings -- Ryan, you maybe
>     should investigate that further, and see if you should do character
>     set and line-ending conversion.  I think what's on disk should either
>     be ascii or unicode -- for drafts we check that it's pure ascii, but
>     the agendas are different, and we should maybe enforce unicode?
Does this mean the code is parsing the agenda file?  Does it need to do this?  I'm happy to add character set validation, but this would affect everyone submitting agenda's so I want to be sure that is the official requirement.

Thanks,
Ryan