[amphetadesk-develop] [ amphetadesk-Bugs-793584 ] British pound symbol won't parse

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Bugs item #793584, was opened at 2003-08-22 19:12
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chad Cloman (captainchad)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: British pound symbol won't parse

Initial Comment:
Version 0.93.1, Windows, embedded binaries. 

The symbol for the British currency (£) in the item
title hoses the processing of the attached XML file. If
you remove that character, it works fine.

I have traced this down to the expat parser. When it
attempts to parse this XML file, it appears to
terminate rather than return with an error. I don't
know Perl well enough to understand what's happening,
but it is similar to the type of return you get with an
unhandled exception or the exit of a shell. What I do
understand is that the code enters XML::Parser::parse()
from XML::Simple::build_tree() and then resumes
execution after this line in load_channel():
   my $data = eval { XMLin($channel_xml, forcearray=> [
"item" ], keyattr => [ ], suppressempty=>undef ) };

Note the use of 'eval' which essentially acts like a
new shell. Thus when expat terminates, program control
returns to the line immediately after this one.
Apparently expat does not return an error code, because
the $@ error-processing is not invoked.

The pound sign (£) is a weird character with an ASCII
code of 163 (A3). Is this a known problem and is there
a workaround?


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>Comment By: Chad Cloman (captainchad)
Date: 2003-08-22 22:43

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This is a duplicate of bug #764335. [Note to self: Read
pre-existing bugs before submitting new ones...]

If you concur, please go ahead and close this one.





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Comment By: Chad Cloman (captainchad)
Date: 2003-08-22 19:15

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Oops. Wrong file. Here is the correct one.

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