Re: Debian WWW CVS: gecko
Darren O. Benham:
> I know that some people (like those in the US) will get garbage for some
> language names (like Japanese)
The problem is the character sets, since the word for "Japanese" uses
characters from the Japanese character set, while the character set for, for
instance, the Swedish pages is iso-8859-1, since that contains the Swedish
characters. This will *always* produce garbage in correctly configured
browsers for names with non-ASCII representations when displayed on other
pages than their own.
My suggestion is to try to create several representations of the name of
each language, one for each character set used. This way, if a langage
string that uses iso-8859-1 characters are written on a Japanese page, those
characters are then changed to their closest low-ASCII representation, and
the string for "Japanese" on the non-Japanese pages would be the Roman
transliteration of the name.
This is an imperfect solution, yes, but unless the pages change to Unicode,
it's the only one that will work sufficiently well.
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