AppDB: Escaping / new-line problems

[Francois Gouget]

A lot of AppDB entries have broken escaping and some even seem to have 
only one line. That greatly reduces their readability. Not sure if this 
is because the formatting was lost over the years. Hopefully it can be 
fixed in one go for all entries. Otherwise we'll have a big AppDB 
janitorial cleanup task...

Here are some examples:

  * Gepasi
    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1509
    Lots of backslashes, quotes are escaped. Appears to be all on one 
line.

  * StreetChaves
    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1852
    Quotes and single-quotes are escaped. All on one line

  * Neverwinter Nights
    http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=870&versionId=1191
    Single-quotes are escaped.


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[Jonathan Ernst]

This was caused when we switched from plain (and addslashed) text to
html.

I and other have cleaned up a lot of entries already. If you are
interested to help, please contact me.

Thanks.

Jonathan 

Le mercredi 09 mars 2005 à 01:17 +0100, Francois Gouget a écrit :
> A lot of AppDB entries have broken escaping and some even seem to have 
> only one line. That greatly reduces their readability. Not sure if this 
> is because the formatting was lost over the years. Hopefully it can be 
> fixed in one go for all entries. Otherwise we'll have a big AppDB 
> janitorial cleanup task...
>
> Here are some examples:
>
> * Gepasi
>     http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1509
>     Lots of backslashes, quotes are escaped. Appears to be all on one 
> line.
>
> * StreetChaves
>     http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1852
>     Quotes and single-quotes are escaped. All on one line
>
> * Neverwinter Nights
>     http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=870&versionId=1191
>     Single-quotes are escaped.

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> This was caused when we switched from plain (and addslashed) text to
> html.
>
> I and other have cleaned up a lot of entries already. If you are
> interested to help, please contact me.

I'd rather not make a promise I can't keep. Besides all the users who 
want Visual C++ project support in winemaker would kill me if I did. At 
least the problem is known and that's good.


But maybe this should be on the janitorials page? Besides it's an easy 
way for non-developers to contribute.


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