Error adding css vars block Error: Can't handle character: "÷"

[LucyMcGowan]

Bug description

Similar to #11148, I am seeing the following:

Error adding css vars block Error: Can't handle character: "÷" (12999:13)
at InputStream.err (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:48871:15)
at Object.err (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:48890:23)
at TokenStream.err (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:48960:27)
at TokenStream.read_next (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:48996:14)
at TokenStream.peek (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:48946:32)
at Object.peek (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:49118:22)
at file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:49153:36
at Array.reduce ()
at Parser.is_type (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:49152:23)
at Parser.is_punctuation (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:49164:21)
The resulting CSS file will not have SCSS color variables exported as CSS.
This is likely a Quarto bug.

// quarto-scss-analysis-annotation { "quarto-version": "1.6.39" }

// quarto-scss-analysis-annotation { "origin": "'use' section from format" }

Steps to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Your environment

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Quarto check output

Quarto 1.6.39
[✓] Checking environment information...
Quarto cache location: /Users/lucymcgowan/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.4.0: OK
Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
Deno version 1.46.3: OK
Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.6.39
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: v2024.01
Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: TinyTex
Path: /Users/lucymcgowan/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.12.4
Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.12/bin/python3.12
Jupyter: (None)

  Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
  Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.3.2
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.45
rmarkdown: 2.25

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[cscheid]

Thanks for the report! Can we get a reprex (where are you using ÷ specifically?)

[LucyMcGowan]

I’m not knowingly using it 🫣

[LucyMcGowan]

Oh boy, just found it, it was an accident, sorry!! Thank you for the quick reply

(For reference it was in my SCSS file but it didn’t mean to be, I had a color with the character accidentally inserted somehow, probably from typing with a baby in my lap 😂)

[cscheid]

@LucyMcGowan Sorry, I should have clarified! This is clearly a bug in Quarto, but it helps us to fix if we know what causes it. Do you have a link to a GitHub repo, eg?

[LucyMcGowan]

My scss file had this:

#user-info {
font-size: .8em;
font-weight: bold;
color: #343÷;
}

(but it was a typo!)

[cscheid]

Thank you. The crash is coming from a third-party library that we know is fairly sketchy (but we don't have the resources to rewrite ourselves just yet), and so we're collecting an increasing number of workarounds. This will fit right in.

[cscheid]

Ok, it turns out that in this case it isn't a bug. For these special characters to be allowed, the value should be in quotes. We should still offer a better error message in this case.