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Id: 119132
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Requestors: SREZIC [...] cpan.org
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Broken in: 0.9903
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  Mon Dec 05 17:03:08 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Non-ASCII in author names causing problems
A ppd file which contains (some kind of?) non-ASCII characters cannot be installed with ppm. And it seems that using make_ppm it's possible to create such kind of ppd files. To reproduce, build one of Ingy's modules: C:\Users\IEUser>make_ppm IO::All ... C:\Users\IEUser>ppm install IO-All.ppd Installing package 'IO-All.ppd'... Error installing package 'IO-All.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for package IO-All.ppd Problem seems to be the "ö" in the author name. It seems to be converted to some strange encoding (cp437?) and put into the AUTHOR field, thus making the XML invalid. If I remove this strange character, then ppm installation works.
  Mon Dec 05 17:08:36 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2016-12-05 17:03:08, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> A ppd file which contains (some kind of?) non-ASCII characters cannot > be installed with ppm. And it seems that using make_ppm it's possible > to create such kind of ppd files. > > To reproduce, build one of Ingy's modules: > > C:\Users\IEUser>make_ppm IO::All > ... > C:\Users\IEUser>ppm install IO-All.ppd > Installing package 'IO-All.ppd'... > Error installing package 'IO-All.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for > package IO-All.ppd > > Problem seems to be the "ö" in the author name. It seems to be > converted to some strange encoding (cp437?) and put into the AUTHOR > field, thus making the XML invalid. If I remove this strange > character, then ppm installation works.
If it matters: this was done with the latest StrawberryPerl 5.24.0.1 on a Win7 VM. German locale was in effect.
  Wed Apr 05 02:45:16 2017 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Tue Dec 06 07:08:36 2016, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> On 2016-12-05 17:03:08, SREZIC wrote:
> > A ppd file which contains (some kind of?) non-ASCII characters cannot > > be installed with ppm. And it seems that using make_ppm it's possible > > to create such kind of ppd files. > > > > To reproduce, build one of Ingy's modules: > > > > C:\Users\IEUser>make_ppm IO::All > > ... > > C:\Users\IEUser>ppm install IO-All.ppd > > Installing package 'IO-All.ppd'... > > Error installing package 'IO-All.ppd': Could not locate a PPD file > > for > > package IO-All.ppd > > > > Problem seems to be the "ö" in the author name. It seems to be > > converted to some strange encoding (cp437?) and put into the AUTHOR > > field, thus making the XML invalid. If I remove this strange > > character, then ppm installation works.
> > If it matters: this was done with the latest StrawberryPerl 5.24.0.1 > on a Win7 VM. German locale was in effect.
Thanks for the report. Shipped 0.9904 with a fix to encode non-ascii characters as numerical entities. Hope this helps.
  Wed Apr 05 02:45:16 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Apr 05 02:45:27 2017 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'