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sr #107935: Markup is confused

Submitter:  Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Submitted:  Mon 16 Jan 2012 11:42:20 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Savannah trackers - bugs, tasks, etc. Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  4 - Important Status:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  mjflick
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 18 Feb 2017 02:12:37 AM UTC, comment #2: 

(triaging old savannah tickets)

Hello,

Regarding this:

> I added a comment using verbatim markup to a bug,
> and the resulting display in the browser is corrupted


I agree this is a good idea. The markup support in savannah could use
some attention (and perhaps it's time to support more common mark-down/).

Sadly, we currently do not have the man-power to implement it (and evidently, didn't have it in the last 5 years since this ticket was opened).

I'm adding this idea to savannah's "todo/wishlist" page (#26):
  https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHackingIdeas/

On the bright-side, we've just made hacking on savannah's PHP code much easier.
If you (or others) wish to help, please see:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2017-02/msg00085.html

As such, I'm closing this ticket for now.

regards,
 - assaf


Assaf Gordon <agn>
Site Administrator
Thu 23 Feb 2012 11:39:22 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

This is a known issue and will be fixed in due time.

Unfortunately, it's not very high on the 'things to fix immediately list.'

Michael J. Flickinger <mjflick>
Mon 16 Jan 2012 11:42:20 PM UTC, original submission:  

I added a comment using verbatim markup to a bug, and the resulting display in the browser is corrupted (although the email shows the correct content)

See my comment of Jan 16 here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34530

You can probably look up the content in the database, but FYI this is what it was:

After some discussion recently by the GNU maintainers, the coding standards
have been modified:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Quote-Characters.html

+verbatim
In the C locale, the output of GNU programs should stick to plain ASCII for
quotation characters in messages to users: preferably 0x22 (‘"’) or 0x27
(‘'’) for both opening and closing quotes. Although GNU programs
traditionally used 0x60 (‘`’) for opening and 0x27 (‘'’) for closing
quotes, nowadays quotes ‘`like this'’ are typically rendered
asymmetrically, so quoting ‘"like this"’ or ‘'like this'’ typically
looks better.
-verbatim

I used the correct verbatim tags (+'s and -'s on both sides) in my post; I didn't use them here since I'm not sure it won't mess up again.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>

 

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