Assume you create a new topic named as:
The 'Globals' Object
This creates the topic ID as:
The'Globals'Object
The spaces are filtered out from the ID, but the quotes remained. Obviously, H&M believes that they are harmless. True? It seems not (at least on my W2K system, English version). In a HM3 file I've had three topics with such sinqle quotes. When I compiled to CHM, I've got strange script errors, claiming that the ')' is missing. I suspected the quotes immediately; I removed them manually from the topics ID, and recompiled; everuthing worked after that.
I'm not sure if this would be repeatable elsewhere; my topic templates are heavily customized. Should strange script errors happen to you, check for the quotes in topic IDs - perhaps these are causing errors.
I propose that single quotes to be filtered out from the topic ID automatically in some future release.
Regards,
Bruno
Single quote character in the topic name causes CHM to fail
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As a basic rule I always avoid any characters above ASCII 127 (i.e. just 1-0, a-z and A-Z) for all non-text purposes like IDs, variable names etc. etc...
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