Changeset 13696 in josm for trunk

Timestamp:

2018-05-01T21:26:32+02:00 (7 years ago)

Author:

stoecker

Message:

add a note about manifest reconstruction and the ugly 70 byte limit

File:

• trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/PluginListParser.java (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/PluginListParser.java

@@ -68 +68 @@
                 if (line.startsWith("\t")) {
                     line = line.substring(1);
+                    /* NOTE: Although manifest specification says line should not be longer than 72 bytes it
+                       supports more than 500 bytes and thus even the longest possible 72 character UTF-8, so
+                       this code correctly splits the text at 70 characters, not bytes. */
                     while (line.length() > 70) {
                         manifest.append(line.substring(0, 70)).append('\n');