Re: A web-based frontend for the cdebconf

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it>]

Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> On 04/07/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> > This evening i built a test tarball, similar to those i used to build
> > when developing the GTK frontend, to test the web frontend with thttpd
> > in a real d-i environement.
> > The results were encouraging, even if a lot of work has to be done yet.
> > There are many bugs in the code still awaiting to be fixed and major
> > work is needed to support HTTP encoding/decoding and to correctly
> > display non latin languages [1].
>
>
> Ouch, I think this is going to be a major problem. IIRC, a web page
> can have only one encoding, thus we will hit again the Han unification
> problem (Thanks a lot Unicode consortium for performing a lobotomy on
> the unicode!). If anybody can contradict me, please, do.

whoops!
i forgot to tell the browser the page had to be displayed as UTF-8 encoded !

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

now intl text [1] looks good to me.
One thing that really needs to implemented is HTTP decoding, in C 
language ..

ciao

Attilio

[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/web_frontend/web_fe_lang.png