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Bug 300052 - yelp displays help files with incorrect or extra characters
yelp displays help files with incorrect or extra characters
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: General
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Shaun McCance
Yelp maintainers
: 302216 310191 314372 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-10 03:01 UTC by csh
Modified: 2005-10-17 05:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description csh 2005-04-10 03:01:09 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Slackware 10.1

View any help file.

It is hard to explain this without an image, so I uploaded one here:
    
    http://users.757.org/~csh/help.jpg

Basically things like sections, tables, and other tags are being rendered like this:

     SectionA A 1
     SectionA A 2
     SectionA A 3

     FigureA 2-1A A gedit Window

     Choose AccessoriesA a??A Text Editor

The A above is actually an A with a "hat", and the ?? above is a box with 4
single digit numbers in it, like you see when asian character sets are rendered
without the right font/charset.

The XML files appear to be parsed correctly, as I can read all of the help (so
far), but I'm getting extra characters around structures related to XML tags
like section, table, figure, etc.
Comment 1 James Lademann 2005-05-05 14:16:11 UTC 
Not much to say except that I get the same thing on Gentoo, I tried running yelp
with a few different LANG/LC_ALL in case it was something locale related but no
dice.
Comment 2 Shaun McCance 2005-05-09 20:28:57 UTC 
*** Bug 302216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alan Horkan 2005-05-09 21:46:37 UTC 
If there is a duplicate I think we can safely consider this confirmed, marking
New.  

Relevant attachments, screenshots illustrating this issue
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=45747&action=view
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=45748&action=view
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2005-05-12 13:05:18 UTC 
And the Unknown thing is definitely there with the latest released yelp.
Comment 5 Kjartan Maraas 2005-05-12 13:05:47 UTC 
Make that yelp 2.9.3 as in rawhide per now
Comment 6 Teppo Turtiainen 2005-07-13 08:34:31 UTC 
*** Bug 310191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Carl Evers 2005-08-17 20:06:33 UTC 
I had the same problem with yelp 2.6.5 on Gentoo.  

I updated yelp to 2.10.0 and the problem has been resolved.
Comment 8 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-08-23 17:16:11 UTC 
I had the same issue in gentoo as well.  With 2.11.1, the problem seems to 
be resolved.  Can we mark this as FIXED?
Comment 9 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-08-24 16:57:42 UTC 
*** Bug 314372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-10-17 05:07:50 UTC 
Fixed.   The gecko backend does not have this issue.