Re: An encoding problem

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:31:25PM +0200, helix84 wrote:
> > I just noticed on Slovak index page
> > <http://www.debian.org/index.sk.html> in news headlines that the
> > accent in Cáceres isn't decoded correctly and a question mark shows
> > instead. The actual news page is displayed correctly. Slovak wml files
> > use UTF-8.
> > 
> > I also checked index.cs.html which displays correctly - Czech wml
> > files use the iso-8859-2 encoding.
> > 
> > I assume this is caused by inclusion (get_recent_list) from the
> > english news file. English .wmlrc defines CHARSET=iso-8859-1. Can you
> > please look into this?
> 
> You're true.
> 
> > 1) Should English be changed to use UTF-8? and/or
> 
> Moving the website to UTF-8 would allow to get rid of such issues.
> Current status:
>      12 -D CHARSET=utf-8
>      10 -D CHARSET=iso-8859-1
>       4 -D CHARSET=iso-8859-2
>       3 -D CHARSET=iso-8859-15
>       2 -D CHARSET=UTF-8
>       1 -D CHARSET_WML=euc-jp
>       1 -D CHARSET=koi8-r
>       1 -D CHARSET=iso-8859-7
>       1 -D CHARSET=iso-8859-13
>       1 -D CHARSET=iso-2022-jp
>       1 -D CHARSET=euc-kr
>       1 -D CHARSET=big5

And Japanese is worst.  It has pages in iso-2022-jp and euc-jp.  I have
no objecion to convert all to UTF-8.