Subject: RE : Assistance with url parsing bug in xmaxima
From: Jaime E. Villate
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:02:59 +0100
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:36 +0200, laurent couraud wrote:
> After some tests I could observe the same error message if the address
> is preceded by a space.
> An other error is produced if the address is followed by a space
Bingo!
You got it right. Thanks a lot.
I can finally reproduce the error (even in Linux) and work
on a solution.
There might be other invisible characters that get in the URL
when it is pasted from the email message into Xmaxima.
Something similar happens to my students sometimes
when they cut expressions from PDF documents and paste
them into the Xmaxima console: minus signs that look like minus signs
are not really minus signs but other characters that give an error:
Maxima complains that the input is wrong and the student cannot
see anything apparently wrong with it.
Regards,
Jaime