Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#2243 closed defect (fixed)

documentation bug

Reported by: Alexander Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: documentation
Version: git-master Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: yes
Analyzed by developer: yes

Description

Summary of the bug:
--enable-doc
--enable-manpages
How to reproduce:

configure --prefix=/usr/local
--enable-manpages
ffmpeg version 1.1.1
osx 10.8
perl revision 5 version 14 subversion 3
gcc 4.2.1
and
gcc 4.8.0
UTF-8

there are errors in pod document files with strange unrecognized symbols

1.
doc/ffmpeg.pod around line 1642: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in '720?576'. Assuming UTF-8
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.14/site/bin/pod2man line 69.
make: * [doc/ffmpeg.1] Error 255

2.
doc/ffmpeg-filters.pod around line 6428: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in '8?8'. Assuming UTF-8
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.14/site/bin/pod2man line 69.
make: * [doc/ffmpeg-filters.1] Error 255

the error is a funny "x" symbol, i replay this with a lower case x and it compiles the manpages ok

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Stefano Sabatini, 11 years ago

Analyzed by developer: set
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed in:

commit d11ac64ecf03f7896ebc5e776e078fdc1f0543a4
Author: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 6 22:40:18 2013 +0100

    doc: replace '×' symbol with 'x'
    
    Non-ascii chars are not correctly rendered in both MAN and HTML output or
    may even cause compilation failure. Thus avoid to use them until we find
    a satisfying way to deal with them.
    
    Fix trac ticket #2243.

Thanks for the report.

comment:2 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 11 years ago

Keywords: --enable-manpages removed
Version: 1.1.1git-master
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