When you try to generate a "slidy" html page (backend slidy) on Windows systems
C:\Users\username\userdirectory\doc> py -3 ..\asciidoc3.py -a toc -a icons -n -v --b slidy test.txtyou may encounter an error:
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asciidoc3: FAILED: unexpected error:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "..\asciidoc3.py", line 6136, in asciidoc3
conffile = config.load_backend()
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File "..\asciidoc3.py", line 4713, in <listcomp>
s.rstrip() for s in f]
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in
decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 2587: character maps to <undefined>
...The reason is found in slidy.js section i18n.
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// for each language define an associative array
// and also the help text which is longer
var w3c_slidy_i18n = {
strings_es: {
...It’s related to this issue. We have a few second UTF-8 bytes (0x81, 0x8D, 0x8F, 0x90, 0x9D) in the help texts es, ca, ja, zh, and ru. I replaced or deleted the crucial characters - you’ll see a few new ???, because I speak not any of these languages.