[Pidgin] #7510: Conversation "Save As" uses HTML without doctype etc

Tue Nov 11 12:22:12 EST 2008

#7510: Conversation "Save As" uses HTML without doctype etc
--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  jas     |        Owner:  rlaager     
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:          |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.4.2   |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:          |  
--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
Changes (by rekkanoryo):

  * owner:  => rlaager

Old description:

> Selecting 'Save As' in a conversation window results in HTML that looks
> like:
>
> <html>
> <head><title>XXX at hotmail.com</title></head>
> <body><h1>Conversation with XXX at hotmail.com</h1>
> <font color="#cc0000"><font size="2">(03:04:49 PM) </font><b><font
> size="3">XXX:</font></b></font><font size="3"></font><font size="3">
> <font color="#000000"><font face="MS Shell
> Dlg">YYY</font></font></font><br>
> ...
>
> If XXX or YYY contains non-ascii characters, they are saved in UTF-8,
> however many browsers (including both iceweasel and epiphany) auto-detect
> the file as ISO-8859-1.
>
> How about adding a header looking something like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
>           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
>   <head>
>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
> ...
>
> I suspect this will allow browsers to chose the appropriate charset.

New description:

 Selecting 'Save As' in a conversation window results in HTML that looks
 like:

{{{
 <html>
 <head><title>XXX at hotmail.com</title></head>
 <body><h1>Conversation with XXX at hotmail.com</h1>
 (03:04:49 PM) XXX: YYY 
 ...
 }}}

 If XXX or YYY contains non-ascii characters, they are saved in UTF-8,
 however many browsers (including both iceweasel and epiphany) auto-detect
 the file as ISO-8859-1.

 How about adding a header looking something like this:

 {{{
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 ...
 }}}

 I suspect this will allow browsers to chose the appropriate charset.

--

Comment:

 I'm not sure listing us as XHTML 1.1 is appropriate, but I don't see the
 harm in adding information to make the log files well-formed.  What are
 your thoughts, rlaager?

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7510#comment:1>
Pidgin <http://pidgin.im>
Pidgin