FORW: Is I18n 'wording' correct in Netscape?
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From: Paul Gorodyansky <paulgor@geocities.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.i18n
Subject: Is I18n 'wording' correct in Netscape?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:12:30 -0700
Hi,
I have a question - starting from ver. 4.5
(what about 5.0?)
a word 'Encoding' is used in
Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts
(as in all previous versions),
while in a View menu a term 'Character Set' is used.
(View / Character Set and
View / Set Default Character Set)
Is it correct?
For instance, for Cyrillic we have
View / Character Set
and then see 4 different variants of Cyrillic.
But as far as I remember from my early days of I18n
experience when I still was reading manuals and books :)
a Character Set is just a set of the letters of a national
alphabet, and then different Encoding methods assign
different code points for these letters.
So, really there is only *one* Cyrillic Character Set -
a group of all Cyrillic letters, and those 4 lines in
a View correspond to the 4 different methods of
_representing_ these Cyrillic letters.
Am I correct? If so, then it should have been vice versa -
'Character Set' in Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts
and 'Encodings' in the View menu.
Or, because a usage of both 'Character Set' term and
'Encoding' term is kind of confusing, just use 'Encoding'
in _both_ places as it was done before 4.5.
Does it make sense?
(I have the following links to the pages that discuss this
terminology:
a) "W3C: Internationalization / Localization":
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html
b) "Notes on Internationalization" by Alan J. Flavell:
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/internat.html
c) "A tutorial on character code issues" by Jukka Korpela:
http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/chars.html
)
I ran into this 'wording' issue while updating my
instructions for Cyrillic in both Netscape 4.0x and 4.5+ -
I had there, "... you need to select a Cyrillic
Encoding using a View item in the menu..." and now I see
that I need to use a different wording for 2,3,4.0x and 4.5+,
because in 4.5+ it's "Character Set" ...
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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic for MS Windows Netscape":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Paul_Gorodyansky/cyr_www.htm
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