webwml/english/mirror/Mirrors.masterlist

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@tmail.plala.or.jp>]

Hi,

As I wrote in the "Unidetified subject!" thread, I rewrite the
Mirrors.masterlist file to use ASCII characters only (including
SGML entity expressions which themselves are written in ASCII).

Howevere, I found that these SGML entities themselves appear in
the webpage of

   http://www.debian.org/mirror/official_sponsors.en.html

against my intension.  This is because "&" is processed in some
scripts and modified into "&".

I think there are several ways of solutions.

1) Modify the scripts not to modify "&" into "&", and leave
   the Mirrors.masterlist as it is.

2) Restore the Mirrors.masterlist and modify the scripts to change
   8bit characters into SGML entities.

3) Modify the Mirrors.masterlist to use UTF-8 and modify the scripts
   to change UTF-8 characters into SGML entities.

Now, 2) cannot be a solution because I found Mirrors.masterlist
uses not only ISO-8859-1 but also ISO-8859-2 characters.

How about 1) or 3) ?


PS. I found

   http://www.debian.org/mirror/sponsors.en.html

is too old.  Why isn't it regenerated since Nov 11, 2002 ?

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/