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

[adam]

ok, i get to this and the other issues tomorrow, been snowed under with 
booki things


adam

On 01/26/2012 06:49 PM, John Curwood wrote:
> 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
>
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