rho character in interpolate-zoom.js causes parse error in Chrome when using SimpleHTTPServer

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rho character in interpolate-zoom.js causes parse error in Chrome when using SimpleHTTPServer

eagereyes opened this issue 11 years ago · comments

It seems that Chrome doesn't like unicode characters when it loads files from a server that doesn't provide the right MIME type (like python -mSimpleHTTPServer). Changing the rho character to a p fixes it. I know it's not very elegant, but for a lot of testing stuff, I use SimpleHTTPServer, and this would help to not run into that sort of issue.

Jason Davies · Answer 1 · Wed Jul 31 2013 05:35:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Either or both of the following should also work:

Use <meta charset="utf-8">.
Use <script charset="utf-8" src="…">.

Mike Bostock · Answer 2 · Wed Jul 31 2013 05:53:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yep, what Jason said. My typical HTML preamble is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">

The third option available to you is to minify the code, which in the process mangles symbols and converts them to ascii characters. For example, with UglifyJS:

uglifyjs interpolate-zoom.js -c -m -o interpolate-zoom.min.js

Robert Kosara · Answer 3 · Wed Jul 31 2013 06:20:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Alright, the charset attribute in the script tag works. Thanks!