Re: Non-ascii character warnings in epubcheck

Got it. Thanks.

JF

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 9:16 AM <matt.garrish@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, exactly. Usage messages are typically used for best practices –
> things that are good to do but are not normatively required. In this case,
> we have a best practice being enforced by a warning message.
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> Matt
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> *From:* John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
> *Sent:* December 2, 2022 9:22 AM
> *To:* matt.garrish@gmail.com
> *Cc:* public-epub-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Non-ascii character warnings in epubcheck
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> Hi Matt,
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> If I am to understand this then, you are proposing something that
> *conceptually* maps to something like this:
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> Error == MUST (Remediate)
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> Warning == SHOULD (Remediate)
> Usage Message == MAY (Remediate)
> (Ref.: RFC 2119 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>)
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> If that is the case, a strong +1
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> JF
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 7:20 AM <matt.garrish@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> While going over the updates to epubcheck, I noticed that it still emits
> warnings if non-ascii characters are found in file names. I’ve proposed
> changing the warning to a usage message as it is only related to a note
> about old processing tools.[1] Otherwise, we’re going to be blocking a lot
> of people from using these characters given vendor restrictions on warnings.
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> If you have a strong opinion against this change, though, (or for it)
> please add a comment to the issue.
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> [1] https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/issues/1384
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> Thanks,
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> Matt
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> *John Foliot* |
> Senior Industry Specialist, Digital Accessibility |
> W3C Accessibility Standards Contributor |
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