[Cdash] encoding-independent non-breaking space

[Julien Jomier]

Markus,

This is a good idea. As you said ISO 8859-1 supports " " which is 
the default supported encoding for CDash. There is a bug report, to 
support UTF-8 encoding (actually the default encoding of the web server).

Thanks,
Julien

Markus Grabner wrote:
> 	Hi!
> 
>     The HTML entity " " occurs at several places in the XSL stylesheets. 
> It is interpreted by the XSLT processor and transmitted to the client as a 
> single byte (hex code 0xa0), which is a non-breaking space in ISO 8859-1 
> encondig. On my system, however, for some reason Firefox chooses to display 
> the cdash pages as UTF-8, where this code is rendered incorrectly (as a 
> question mark, see attached screenshot). While some effort could be made to 
> make cdash and the web browser agree on a common encoding, a more general 
> solution would be to transmit the encoding-independent HTML entity " " 
> instead. According to a comment on "http://www.php.net/xsl", the "hard way" 
> (but least dependent on external stuff) to do so is to replace all
> 
> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
> 
> by
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&nbsp;</xsl:text>
> 
> or, as an "sed" command (in a single line):
> 
> sed -i 's/<xsl:text> <\/xsl:text>/<xsl:text 
> disable-output-escaping="yes">\&nbsp;<\/xsl:text>/g' *.xsl
> 
> This fixes all " " (except the one in "viewSite.xsl", line 61, where I 
> believe the <xsl:text> tag is missing), i.e., the non-breaking spaces are 
> displayed correctly and indeed transmitted as " ", which can be 
> confirmed in the HTML source code view of the browser.
> 
> Is there a particular reason why the " " code was chosen instead of 
> the " "? If not, I propose to apply this change to the cdash repository.
> 
> 	Kind regards,
> 		Markus
> 
> 
> 
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