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Unescaped characters confuse Konqueror

Unescaped characters confuse Konqueror

Posted Aug 20, 2008 14:39 UTC (Wed) by Robert (guest, #36811)
Parent article: Enhanced printk() merged

The string printk(" [<%016lx>] confuses Konqueror (3.5.9) and it terminates the page behind the <. It would be better to convert these characters to HTML entities: &lt; and &gt;.


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Unescaped characters confuse Konqueror

Posted Aug 20, 2008 14:46 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Not just "better", it's required to make the page valid HTML. Sorry that one slipped through, it's fixed now.

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