[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Unicode in root.txt

[Yamil Suarez]

Hello,

I was always unsure if that special bit of text should be there, but then
again I know very little about the low level implementation of Unicode. I
had been meaning to bring this issue up to those like Dan that know better
about me about UNicode. I would not be surprised if that special character
should be apeparing at the top of "root.txt." For the record, that special
unicode character first appeared in this commit from May 2013...

http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=commitdiff;h=abc74b8359e646b5e3118e449f21624aa015d991

Thanks for the feedback,
Yamil



On Monday, June 1, 2015, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org> wrote:

>  Thanks for the info Dan, I’ll just leave those alone then.
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> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
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> Unicode (at least the UTF8 encoding) should work just fine in Asciidoc.
> Running "asciidoc root.txt" against Evergreen master on Fedora 22 works for
> me without any problems, at least nothing related to Unicode in root.txt.
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> As for U2019, per http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt that's
> actually the preferred usage for "apostrophe", and there are U2013 en
> dashes, which are also fine.
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> So I would be against getting rid of those (valid) instances of Unicode
> characters and the BOM.
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> Dan
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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','stomproj at exchange.larl.org');>> wrote:
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> Yamil, you mentioned during the doc hackfest that the strange codes in
> root.txt were just a mistake and that you were planning on fixing it
> sometime.  I just wanted to confirm that those can be removed without any
> ill effect?
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> It looks to me like it is Unicode that snuck in, maybe something was
> pasted from MS Word, smartquotes etc?
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> There are a couple  “U+2019” right single quotation marks in the place of
> apostrophes, and at the beginning of the document there is a Byte order
> mark “\357\273\277, which marks the text as Unicode, which I don’t think is
> accurate.
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> Anybody have any problems with me taking those Unicode characters out of
> root.txt.
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> Josh
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