Re: [lmi] Non-ASCII characters in wx html help

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-10-06 01:50Z, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2008-04-23 11:56Z, Vaclav Slavik wrote:
>> 
>> Greg Chicares wrote:
>>> > Not currently, but I can [try to] implement it. wxHTML translates
>>> > tabs inside <pre> into series of &nbsp; characters, so it would
>>> > need to be changed to do this later, when rendering (apparently,
>>> > that's what Firefox does).
>>>
>>> I would welcome that change if it turns out to be practicable.
>> 
>> Implemented and checked into 2.8 branch (i.e. will be part of 2.8.8):
>> http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx?view=rev&revision=53318
> 
> In order to get this feature, I'm thinking of upgrading now to
> wx-2.8.9 .

I'm testing lmi with wx-2.8.9 now. I'm seeing one odd thing when I
copy <pre> text: the first copied line appears not to be terminated.
Displaying 'user_manual_contents.html' in wx html help, I highlight
the <pre> text whose source begins

Gender&#009;UnderwritingClass&#009;IssueAge&#009;Payment&#009;DeathBenefitOption
Female&#009;Preferred&#009;30&#009;sevenpay,7;0&#009;b,7;a
Male&#009;Preferred&#009;35&#009;sevenpay,7;0&#009;b,7;a

and press Ctrl-C to copy. Then the clipboard contains this:

/usr/bin[0]$od </dev/clipboard -t a
0000000   G   e   n   d   e   r  ht   U   n   d   e   r   w   r   i   t
0000020   i   n   g   C   l   a   s   s  ht   I   s   s   u   e   A   g
0000040   e  ht   P   a   y   m   e   n   t  ht   D   e   a   t   h   B
0000060   e   n   e   f   i   t   O   p   t   i   o   n   F   e   m   a
                                     expected 'nl' here ^
0000100   l   e  ht   P   r   e   f   e   r   r   e   d  ht   3   0  ht
0000120   s   e   v   e   n   p   a   y   ,   7   ;   0  ht   b   ,   7
0000140   ;   a  nl   M   a   l   e  ht   P   r   e   f   e   r   r   e
                  ^ this 'nl' is right

This doesn't seem to be crucial: if I write '&#010;' at the end of
the first line, it works:

0000060   e   n   e   f   i   t   O   p   t   i   o   n  nl   F   e   m
                                  here's the desired 'nl' ^

That's the only place where we need to copy from html help to the
clipboard, and I don't mind using this workaround for now. Provided
you can reproduce it, perhaps it could be addressed in wx-2.9.0 .

Testers: this still won't work yet because lmi's census-paste code
expects lines delimited by carriage returns, but I consider that a
design defect that I'll fix in lmi soon.