[Clipart] 2 submit problems

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 22:49 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Matthew Gates <matthew at porpoisehead.net> writes:
> 
> > Two things.
> > 
> > 1.  I'm still confused about how the submit thing is supposed to
> > work.  From the front page, I browsed to a file I wanted to submit,
> > and clicked send file.  Then I get the form to fill in the details,
> > which contains another browse and submit button.  So I managed to
> > send two copied.  This is really confusing IMO.  Perhaps I'm just
> > dense...

Yeah, this is a usability issue...and should be filed as a bug...man,
this 0.16 release has creeped up sooooo fast this time...

Jon


> Hmmm...  I think it is not supposed to work that way; if you have
> already submitted the file, it is supposed to be stored and your form
> contains a token that allows the upload script to find it again.
> Well, that's how it's *supposed* to work...
> 
> I may have to look into this, after the 0.16 release.
> 
> > 2. My SVG file seems to be corrupted in the upload process:
> > 
> > $ /opt/inkscape-0.42/bin/inkscape ampelm_nnchen_matthew_ga_01.svg
> > ampelm_nnchen_matthew_ga_01.svg:6: parser error : Input is not proper 
> > UTF-8, indicate encoding !
> > Bytes: 0xE4 0x6E 0x6E 0x63
> >         <dc:title>Ampelmännchen</dc:title>
> 
> Yes, that is the remaining known bug in the upload script.  It needs
> to convert any of the metadata that it receives from the form into
> UTF8 before adding them to the file.  Currently it naively assumes
> that there is only one character set in the universe, which works for
> a large percentage of the English-speaking world...
> 
> You should not be bitten by this bug if your browser sends the
> metadata as UTF8 in the first place, or if they only have ASCII
> characters, or if you submit under a waxing gibbous moon an
> integer-multiple of seven seconds since midnight on the ides of the
> month.  Wait, did I say that last part out loud?
> 
> Anyway, this is an issue that I hope to tackle soon if not next, now
> that we have the HASH issue out of the way.  I *think* that this one
> can be handled just by changes to the upload script itself, without
> touching SVG::Metadata.  It would probably be a five-minute fix for
> someone who fully groks unicode, but I expect to spend rather longer
> than that on it.
> 
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