[Booki-dev] New Ticket - broken links on published manual

[John Curwood]

Hi, I tried to create the ticket below, however, on the trac website 
when I clicked create, it said I didn't have ticket creating privileges.

Anyway, we have the issue below for published manuals on the FM website 
where the chapter headings are written in a non-latin script.
Cheers,
John


Hi, in the published farsi translation of Curcumvention tools 
(http://www.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-fa), most of the chapter links 
down the left hand menu are broken.

WHen I click on a chapter heading, I get the following message:
Error

This page does not exist. Book request=bypassing-fa Chapter 
request=introduction

When I had a closer look, most chapter headings in the menu are written 
in farsi, and when I hover over a chapter title in farsi, the link 
points to the section heading.

For example, all the chapters in the basic techniques section point to:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-fa/basic-techniques/

however some chapters do, work. These chapters have at least one latin 
character in the chapter heading.

For example in the firefox and its addons section, most chapters have at 
least one wort written with latin characters, the links form these 
headings go to a page name that comprises purely of the latting 
characters in the chapter heading. e.g. the chapter on https goes to 
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-fa/firefox-and-its-addons/https . 
Which works. However the farsi characters in teh name aren't represteed 
in the name.

I think this has something to do with the way we gererate HTML pages 
when we publish the book and i am guessing that urls can only contain 
numbers and latin characters and since the chapter heading have farsi 
characters, a "legitimate" url or file name cannot be generated.

This issue also affects other manuals that are written in non-latin scripts.
e.g.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/circumvention-tools-mn/
http://en.flossmanuals.net/circumvention-tools-zh/
and
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-ru/ - in the case of this last one, 
no matter what chapter I click on the introduction chapter opens.

John