[Slackdocs] Wrong characters in slack-descs

Gerardo Zamudio gerardo.zamudio at linux.com
Thu May 26 03:31:44 CEST 2016


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On 05/25/2016 06:43 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hi admins and list,
> 
> There are erroneous characters in: 
> http://packages.slackonly.com/pub/packages/current-x86_64/PACKAGES.TXT
>
>  I found some because they make this command spit errors: iconv -f
> UTF-8 -t ASCII PACKAGES.TXT
> 
> They are many so I suggest to run that command in the whole repo.
> 
> Obviously they are in the description coming from the slack-descs.
> 
> These error prevents to display the description in the packages
> tools.
> 
> They are obvious when the file is displayed in geany.
> 
> My findings are for Slackware-current, maybe 14.1 could be scanned
> as well.
> 
> Cheers, Didier
> 
> 

Hi Didier

Perhaps you meant to send this to the SlackOnly list or admins.

https://slackonly.com/blog/?page_id=34

The Slackware Documentation Project does not host the link you sent.

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Gerardo Zamudio
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