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A minor problem in FAQ03.html due to a yodl bug



I've noticed Zsh FAQ on sourceforge has a minor problem:
https://zsh.sourceforge.io/FAQ/zshfaq03.html#l19

Other way of causing word splitting include a judicious use of `eval':
    sentence="Longtemps, je me suis couch\+NOTRANS(é) de bonne heure."

It seems this is due to a bug of (some versions of) yodl.
yodl-3.05.00 has this problem, but version 4.04.02 ((Ubuntu 22.04)
correctly outputs "couch\\'e". I don't know when this bug was
introduced and when it has been fixed.

A workaround is to replace either \ or ' by CHAR().

Do I need to push this patch?
Or is it enough to use the latest versions of yodl?


diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo
index 8bd7262fe..8a6895454 100644
--- a/Etc/FAQ.yo
+++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo
@@ -1055,8 +1055,9 @@ label(31)
 
   Other ways of causing word splitting include a judicious use of
   `eval':
+  COMMENT(CHAR(39) is a workaround for a bug in some versions of yodl)\
   verb(
-    sentence="Longtemps, je me suis couch\\'e de bonne heure."
+    sentence="Longtemps, je me suis couch\\CHAR(39)e de bonne heure."
     eval "words=($sentence)"
   )
   after which $words is an array with the words of $sentence (note






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