Re: [boost] [website] Invalid characters in authors' names on the libraries lists

Subject: Re: [boost] [website] Invalid characters in authors' names on the libraries lists
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-20 18:44:44

On 20 July 2014 22:32, Adam Wulkiewicz <adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that there are some invalid characters in the names,
> e.g. on the page http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0_b1
> Vicente J. Botet Escribá
> Ion Gaztañaga
> Joaquín M López Muñoz
>
> AFAIU it's not a problem with the charset because it's explicitly written
> this way in HTML:
> Vicente J. Botet Escrib&Atilde;&iexcl;
> Ion Gazta&Atilde;&plusmn;aga
> Joaqu&Atilde;&shy;n M L&Atilde;&sup3;pez Mu&Atilde;&plusmn;oz
>
> So I'm guessing that there is a problem with some conversion from ... to
> HTML or with the ... source file.
> If the problem couldn't be fixed, the replacing of the problematic letters
> would be an obvious workaround.

It should be fixed now. It was due to php 5.3 using ISO-8859-1 by
default, when it should be UTF-8.

> Btw, what needs to be done to modify this page?
> Is it stored in QBK and built automatically or is it stored in HTML format
> only?

It's generated by php. It can be updated with a 'meta/libraries.json'
in a module. Let me know if you want me to generate one for a module.

> The same question for
> http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_56_0.html, however in this case
> I managed to find HTML file in the Website module.
> If I'd like to modify those pages what should I do?

That's generated from the quickbook file at:

https://github.com/boostorg/website/blob/master/feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk