Re: [TWiki-Dev] Login/register broken, and euro symbol issue (bug 625)

[Richard D. <rd...@us...>]

Re the Euro symbol, the correct NCR is €, i.e. Unicode 8364 decimal,
which is the Unicode encoding of ISO-8859-15's 164 decimal codepoint.  As
mentioned below, the NCRs always encode in Unicode not the browser
character encoding.

Cheers,

Richard

> Hi,
>
> Login and registration appears completely broken at present on
> develop.twiki.org.  I've had variants of the following message on trying
> explicit login, register, etc:
>
>
> http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/login/Bugs/Item625:
>
> TWiki detected an error or attempted hack - please check your TWiki logs
> and webserver logs for more information.
>
> Use of uninitialized value in string ne
>
> --------------
>
> TWiki detected an error or attempted hack - please check your TWiki logs
> and webserver logs for more information.
>
> Insecure dependency in glob while running with -T switch
>
> ----------------
>
> I really want to comment on bug 625 (
> http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item625 ), about the
> euro symbol, but can't at present.  The bug reported indicates that the
> character encoding in HTTP headers is most likely set wrongly somewhere,
> and perhaps that some UTF-8 conversion is going on in the content of the
> page (which didn't happen in Cairo and shouldn't be in Dakar).  It may
> also be an issue with specific support for ISO-8859-15 (which includes
> Euros) in browser or fonts - see
> http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/browser-tweaks.html for
> some ideas.
>
> Fixing this with a solution for the Euro only is a bad idea.  It would be
> worth testing other character encodings such as KOI8-R to see if they have
> the same problems - I suspect it's a generic problem.
>
> It's also worth Googling on TWiki for 'numeric character references',
> which I've mentioned a few times - these are the &#nnnn; entity references
> that actually generate Unicode characters, *no matter what your current
> character encoding is set to*.  They sometimes appear if you paste (say)
> KOI8-R data into an ISO-8859-1 page, i.e. the browser generates them as a
> way of trying preserve the data.  However, they should now be considered
> an indicator of a problem.
>
> If someone could paste the last 3 paras into
> http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item625 that would be
> helpful too!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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