Re: CRITICALLY IMPORTANT: fix your package.xml or PEAR

From:	Greg Beaver	Date:	Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:31:32 +0000
Subject:	Re: CRITICALLY IMPORTANT: fix your package.xml or PEAR
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Stephan Schmidt wrote:

Hi Greg, Greg Beaver schrieb:
If existing releases have invalid characters (non-latin characters) in their maintainers names, PEAR 1.4.0a1 under PHP 5 *will not install them*. I will open bugs for every package that I see, but I am not only non-superhuman, I know have a cold which is not helping. If you know that your package has this problem, it is crucial to pull the release and upload a new one with the special characters either entitied or removed altogether.
Couldn't/shouldn't this be done automatically in PEAR_PackageFileManager? Would be great to have support for this in one of the next versions.

Yes, it probably could and definitely should. I'm not sure if htmlentities() is enough, however, it will probably require doing a bigass str_replace(). Greg