Psych can't load LaTeX entities file

Ruby Apps Redcloth
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Hi there,

I wanted to use RedCloth with my RubyOnRails 3 application, but it seems
that RoR uses 1.9.2’s Psych by default as the YAML parser if available,
and Psych fails to load the LaTeX entities file:

====================================================================
#ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-linux]
irb(main):001:0> Dir.pwd
=>
“/opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/RedCloth-4.2.3/lib/redcloth/formatters”
irb(main):002:0> YAML
=> Psych
irb(main):003:0> YAML.load_file(“latex_entities.yml”)
Psych::SyntaxError: couldn’t parse YAML at line 182 column 9
from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in
parse' from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:inparse_stream’
from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:119:in
parse' from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:106:inload’
from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p136/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:205:in
load_file' from (irb):3 from /home/quintus/bin/irb_:56:in’
irb(main):004:0>

The criticized line is this one (for whatever reason Psych’s error
reporting is off by 1 line):

====================================================================
ldquor: ,

There are some more occurences of such characters in that file. Apply
this patch and loading works fine:

====================================================================
— lib/redcloth/formatters/latex_entities.yml.old 2011-02-05
12:59:03.143333338 +0100
+++ lib/redcloth/formatters/latex_entities.yml 2011-02-05
13:01:30.540000006 +0100
@@ -180,10 +180,10 @@
“8218”: “,”
#DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
#requires fontenc:T1
-ldquor: ,
+ldquor: “,”
#DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
#requires fontenc:T1
-“8222”: ,
+“8222”: “,”
#LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF
“64256”: ff
#LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@
#LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL
“64258”: fl
#DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
-“8223”: +"8223": ""
#SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
-“8219”: +"8219": ""
#VERTICAL ELLIPSIS
“8942”: \vdots{}
#HYPHEN BULLET
@@ -502,17 +502,17 @@
#requires fontenc:T1
“187”: \guillemotright{}
#LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
-lsquo: +lsquo: ""
#LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
-“8216”: +"8216": ""
#RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
rsquo: “’”
#RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
“8217”: “’”
#LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
-ldquo: +ldquo: ""
#LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
-“8220”: +"8220": ""
#RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
rdquo: “’’”
#RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Get a Ruby build with Psych support (the libyaml development headers
    have to be present when compiling Ruby)
  2. Go to IRB
  3. require “psych”
  4. YAML = Psych
  5. require “redcloth”

Valete,
Marvin

2

It’s already fixed in master. I’m working on pushing it out now. Thanks
for
reporting it, though! I wanted to make sure I had caught up with
everything
before I pushed a release.
Jason