Re: pearweb + releasing + none latin chars in names

On 4/27/05, Helgi Þormar <helgi@trance.is> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:22 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > > On 4/27/05, Helgi Þormar <helgi@trance.is> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just decided to go straight to the source and ask you Greg :-) > > > > > > Thing is, pear install -f package.xml on package xml files that contain > > > &THORN; in my name fail ... but work just fine if I use Þ > > > > > > This is kinda puzzling me since iirc Daniel C. was telling everything to > > > use &THORN; kind of chars in their names. > > > > > > http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=3629 like here > > > for example. > > > > > > Now is this only a pearweb issue, xml_rpc that is or is this resolved or > > > what ? :/ > > > > > > I'm soon doing a RC release of Cache but I need to know this before so I > > > don't have to pull the release later on. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > I believe that you're supposed to use the numbered entity as &THORN; > > isn't a normal XML entity, it's an HTML entity. Then again, I may be > > wrong. Try &#222;. And if that doesn't work perhaps try &thorn;? > > might be with the number but &thorn; no, &thorn; being þ and &THORN; > being uppercase ... i.e. Þ I'm not sure what you're saying here. Did it work with the numbered entity? > > I'll check but I find it silly that we have this "restriction" > AFAIK this isn't a restriction that we (Greg) imposed it's more an XML parser restriction. -- Justin Patrin