Re: Debian Boot Floppies CVS: boot-floppies polish

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Friday 19 November 1999, at 0 h 48, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo 
<aph@va.debian.org> wrote:

> Added files:
> 	utilities/language-chooser: polish.xml 

This is the first file which does not use Latin-1 or US-ASCII as its encoding. It breaks the whole system, since the Python library, like expat, apparently does not recognize Latin-2 (which wasn't indicated, anyway). 

I suggest:

- all XML files to display the proper PI:
      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
- all encodings to be US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8, because 
  they are the only ones understood by typical "potato" XML tools.

In the future:

- all XML files to have a proper DOCTYPE so they can be validated.
- details on debian-sgml.


PS: why commits by Michael are "From: Adam di Carlo"? A side-effect from CVS guest accounts? In any case, if a CVS expert can fix that...