Encoding glitch on homepage

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Encoding glitch on homepage #342

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Visiting the homepage gives me some weird characters where the ellipsis should 
be in front of "And a promoter of regular meetups around the world."

Confirmed on Ubuntu with Google Chrome and Mac OS X with Safari.

http://imgur.com/yUjNy

Original issue reported on code.google.com by notifyj...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2012 at 12:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Worked around by changing ellipsis entity on wiki to: ...

Original comment by wjmo...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2012 at 6:32

Changed state: Fixed

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I thought of that, but it occurred to me that it might be a symptom of some 
deeper issue, so I left it alone.  I guess if there weren't any recent code 
changes that could've been responsible for this then that's all you can do, eh.

Original comment by notifyj...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2012 at 8:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Its certainly a bug. I think the library that parses the HTML from the wiki is 
turning the &hellips; entity into a unicode character but that encoding isn't 
being preserved when the final page is constructed. Given the easy workaround I 
decided it was best just to do that instead of spending time (and money) on 
tracking the problem down.

Original comment by wjmo...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2012 at 10:33