From: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@anjbe.name>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Double quotes in man.cgi search output
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 01:43:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35268.1472543039@CATHET.us> (raw)
Hi,
html_putchar() escapes double quotes incorrectly: the entity should be
", not "e;.
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references
For example:
http://man.openbsd.org/?query=Nd~%22&apropos=1
In Firefox, each "e; is rendered as: "e;
because Firefox believes what the author meant to write was "e;
Index: cgi.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/mandoc/cgi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -u -p -r1.77 cgi.c
--- cgi.c 18 Aug 2016 00:44:37 -0000 1.77
+++ cgi.c 30 Aug 2016 07:34:28 -0000
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ html_putchar(char c)
switch (c) {
case ('"'):
- printf(""e;");
+ printf(""");
break;
case ('&'):
printf("&");
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