Re: questions on webwml/english/templete/debian/cdimage.wml
Tomohiro KUBOTA:
> BTW, usage of non-ASCII characters are not recommended even if
> the character is expressed using entity.
Using entities is the correct way of using non-ASCII characters, and it
should be promoted. Most browsers today are multilingual, and should be
able to display them properly.
> This is because text- based browser cannot display it.
Then they should be fixed.
> For example, read "This page is available in the following languages"
> in http://www.debian.org/index.en.html using text-based browsers like
> lynx and w3m.
In Lynx, it looks like this (with a iso-8859-1 display):
This page is also available in the following languages:
català dansk Deutsch Ellynika' (Ellinika) español Esperanto
français 한국어 (Hangul) hrvatski Indonesia
Italiano magyar Nederlands 日本語 (Nihongo)
norsk (bokmål) polski Português româna Russkij (Russkij)
suomi svenska Türkçe 中文 (CN)
中文 (HK) 中文 (TW)
Lynx automatically transliterates many alphabets (I can sort-of read
the Russian page in Lynx, the page title is "Universal'naya
Operacionnaya Sistema". The only things not showing properly are the
far-east characters. But if I set my display to use UTF-8, I will see
them as well.
Just because some implementations cannot display the characters is not
a reason for not using them (especially since we also include
transliterations anyway). It's like deciding that we won't use PNG
images just because some browsers can't display them, or to remove the
content negotiations because it's not available in some browsers, and
so on.
The best solution would probably be to transcode *all* our pages to use
UTF-8 and automatically remove the entities that can be expressed
properly.
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