[ANNOUNCE] xproto 7.0.19

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

2010/11/4 Alan Coopersmith:
> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>> 2010/11/4 Matt Dew:
>>> 2010/11/4 Gaetan Nadon:
>>>> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 17:55 -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About garbled text converting to txt, I also get it.
>>>>
>>>> So I am not the only one.
>>>>
>>>> The error you are talking about was fixed in my distro:
>>>>
>>>> 2008
>>>>
>>>> xmlto (0.0.20-3) unstable; urgency=low
>>>>
>>>> * debian/control (Suggests): Added xmltex now providing passivetex
>>>>      (closes: #416622, #440518). Thanks to Robert Wohlrab.
>>>>      (Description): Added information about fop/docbook-xsl as
>>>>      alternative to passivetex.
>>>>    * debian/patches/499200_cannot_parse_XSLTPARAMS.dpatch: Added.
>>>>      - xmlto.in: Fixed error message using --stringparam switch
>>>>        (closes: #499200). Thanks to Zed Pobre.
>>>>    * debian/patches/00list: Adjusted.
>>>>
>>> What kind of garbled text?   Is it basically one long line with no formatting?
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>> Here, I think it was a reader issue, because with Midnight Commander,
>> in the last days, I'd see it garbled, but with notepad on Windows, it
>> looks normal.
>>
>> Anyway, randrproto.txt looks a bit strange here. Things like.
>>
>> ┌───
>>     RRSetCrtcTransform
>>       crtc: CRTC
>>       transform: TRANSFORM
>>       filter: STRING8
>>       values: LISTofFIXED
>> └───
>>       Errors: Crtc, Match
>
> Are you viewing in a UTF-8 locale?   Many of our text documents assume
> the UTF-8 character set, but unlike xml/html have no way to specify
> that to the viewer.
>
> In UTF-8 locales, those are line drawing characters:
> ┌───
>    RRSetCrtcTransform
>        crtc: CRTC
>        transform: TRANSFORM
>        filter: STRING8
>        values: LISTofFIXED
> └───
>
> randrproto.txt is a hand-written text file, not generated by any of our tools.

No, I use ISO-8859-1. UTF-8 in Firefox fixed it.

Thanks.