Re: [boost] [quickbook] diagnosing a missing [endsect]?

Subject: Re: [boost] [quickbook] diagnosing a missing [endsect]?
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-18 21:46:42

On 18 March 2017 at 21:00, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>
>> If I'm right then is-rooted really needs to be fixed, but can you try the
>> attached patch? It assumes that BOOST_ROOT is always absolute, which I think
>> is the case.
>
>
> This works, quickbook gets built and copied to $BOOST_ROOT/dist/bin. But
> then
>
> C:\Projects\boost-git\boost>dist\bin\quickbook.exe
> E
> C:\Projects\boost-git\boost>dist\bin\quickbook.exe --help
> A
> C:\Projects\boost-git\boost>dist\bin\quickbook.exe --input-file
> libs\mp11\doc\mp11.qbk --output-file test.xml
> G
>
> By the look of it, a UTF-16 string is probably being output as 8 bit. I'll
> try to debug it. (test.xml does end up being created, so it works, it's just
> the console output that's missing.)

If the console output isn't working, it'd probably be better to just
use ASCII rather than waste time fixing the code (which is very
messy). It'll be fine for most output, quickbook will still support
UTF-8 in the xml output.