[gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

[gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

[Helmut Jarausch]

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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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

[Neil Bothwick]

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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

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Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

[Andrew Udvare]

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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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

[Jack]

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

[Jack]

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 "<title>Introduction  
to Metaprogramming in Nim &middot; HookRace Blog</title>" 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

[David Haller]

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 "<title>Introduction to
>Metaprogramming in Nim &middot; HookRace Blog</title>" 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     ·     MIDDLE DOT
====

-dnh

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