[GRASS-dev] mkhtml fails on Windows with UnicodeDecodeError

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 4:51 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vaclav,
>
> st 24. 8. 2022 v 10:41 odesílatel Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> napsal:
>
>> The lib/gis/parser_html.c puts iso-8859-1 into the HTML files (I just
>> checked that now), so that's what an HTML reader should be using. That's of
>> course not what we want at this point. It just should be UTF-8 everywhere.
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>
> +1 for switching to UTF-8
>
> The HTML files may already use UTF-8 (?), but the parser may emit HTML in
>> system-dependent encoding. However, the source code it is using should be
>> UTF-8 or more likely it is simply ASCII, so perhaps not much to worry about.
>>
>
> I am not sure why the parser should emit HTML in system-dependent
> encoding. Why simply not use UTF-8 as suggested in PR [1]?
>

It should emit UTF-8, I don't know what it does now.


> Back to the original problem, how can we solve the problem with
> compilation on Windows 2016 without changing the code base of grass78
> significantly? BTW, I was able to compile grass78 on the same machine a few
> weeks ago and I don't see any related changes in v.random.html... (?)
>

The PR looks okay on the surface. Maybe you can just remove the problematic
character in 7.8.


> Martin
>
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