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Id: 58038
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Requestors: dolmen [...] cpan.org
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  Wed Jun 02 01:48:09 2010 james2vegas [...] aim.com - Ticket created
Subject: More embedded ^Hs breaking uploads.rdf
This is a duplicate of RT # 57909, same cause, same effect.


The embedded ^H (backspace) in Makefile.PL breaks http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf as it is converted to  which in invalid in XML, e.g.

$ fetch http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf                          
Trying 64.235.248.44...
Requesting http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf
100% |**************************************************| 50196       00:00   
50196 bytes received in 0.08 seconds (640.08 KB/s)
$ xmllint uploads.rdf
uploads.rdf:846: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 8
<description>Interface to xymon &#x8;/hobbit client.</description>
                                   
This breaks the news feed reader in (at least) liferea, thunderbird and firefox.  It also breaks XML::Feed's parsing of the feed:

reference to invalid character number at line 846, column 32, byte 41305


  Thu Feb 24 07:16:19 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Le 2010-06-02 01:48:09, JWRIGHT a écrit : Show quoted text
> The embedded ^H (backspace) in Makefile.PL breaks > http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf as it is converted to &#x8; which > in invalid > in XML, e.g.
I've opened RT#66113 against ExtUtils::MakeMaker so that EUMM report the problem early. https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66113 -- Olivier Mengué - http://search.cpan.org/~dolmen/ http://github.com/dolmen/
  Thu Feb 24 07:16:20 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Feb 24 07:17:19 2011 dolmen [...] cpan.org - Requestor DOLMEN added