Bug#567781: www.debian.org: converting the website to UTF-8
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:38:07AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> The English parts of the website currently seem to be encoded in
> iso-8859-1. This causes issues in some cases where UTF-8 is used instead
> of HTML symbol entities. An example of this is the draft financial
> partners page:
>
> http://www.debian.org/partners/financial_partners.en.html
>
> Would it not be better to encode the website in UTF-8?
Now UTF8 is a defacto charset standard in Debian and other
distributions, moving the pages to UTF8 would avoid encoding
limitations and conversion mistakes.
Out of the 49 languages available on the website, 19 don't use UTF8:
$ grep CHARSET */.wmlrc |grep -vi utf | cut -d "/" -f1 | sort
catalan
chinese
croatian
czech
-> english
greek
hungarian
indonesian
italian
korean
lithuanian
norwegian
polish
portuguese
romanian
romanian
russian
spanish
swedish
The process used and issues met during migration of french translation
is available at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2009/07/msg00230.html
The main specific issue of moving the english version over other
languages will be updating the po files of all languages.
--
Simon Paillard
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