On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:39:37AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
Today I made the mistake of looking at the Publican produced release notes with Internet Explorer. I can't believe it has taken me so long to make this check, but it wasn't pleasant. They are pretty badly munged up. I wonder if there are things we can do/set in Publican to straighten this out.
The first problem is that the first page stops with the logo image. This eliminates the table of contents and first section. By changing the chunking in Publican we can get the first section back, but I don't know how to get the table of contents. And the little box where the logo belongs looks trashy. I suspect I could modify the branding to use the png version. I also did a different document with Publican, and all looked fine when I looked at it on my local box, but when I moved it to a webserver off my LAN (I believe it is RHEL), a bunch of XML shows up where the logo belongs when viewed with FF. And it has the same issues with IE.
That is a server-side setting. It is not pushing the proper MIME type for SVG. We had this on the docs.fedoraproject.org servers the first time we put up the SELinux Guide; and it wasn't universal, only some servers had the MIME type wrong, so it was harder to figure out.
I'm not sure about the chunking stuff; let's see how it looks once you fix the MIME type.
Second, every section number is followed by an A circumflex. I suspect this is some sort of codepage issue, but I can't say I'm sure of that.
I think is also server-side, it's pushing the wrong character set. Can you confirm the server is set to use UTF-8? It is likely using ISO 8859, which was Apache default for a while (still?)
I checked the Fedora 10 release notes, which weren't produced with Publican, and they are fine.
Are you also seeing the character problems on a local copy or just from the server?
- Karsten