Bug#373816: developers-reference: Please encode in UTF-8

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:14:28AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:06:42AM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> > Quoting Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>:
> > > Eh, I expect that this will just be a proposal. It might be helpful to
> > > coordinate such changes a bit before with the main maintainer of the dev
> > > ref, before putting too much work into it.
> > 
> > Well, of course it's a proposal, a good one btw. :-)
> 
> Great! 
> 
> dev-ref is relatively easy to cordinate than ones with many translation.
> With tools available, merging updates in upstream SGML to new XML
> version should not be too much work, I hope.

I want to add my 2 cents as well:

Converting the text file to UTF-8 is trivial by adding a iconv line to
the Makefile. There is also experimental UTF-8 support (only for
Ukrainian ar the moment) in debiandoc2sgml which will be extented ...

I'm not sure whether you know that PDF support in DocBook XML is in a
bad shape. It's not possible to create Japanese PDF files. I know that
the Japanese translation is outdated nevertheless it may be useful to
other persons (for example to find new translators). That's one of the
reasons why I added this translation build again (was also still referenced
by DDP).

Jens