Re: broken link and wrong character set
"James A. Treacy" wrote:
> There are two things going on here. First, I didn't add the arabic directory
> to the top Makefile until after the daily update (btw, you haven't created a
> .wmlrc file. This is needed for wml to work correctly. I added one for you,
> but you should check it for correctness).
Thank you. Actually I did but it looks like I forgot to commit it. Now that I
try I get this error message when I try to add, and it tells me I should add
.wmlrc when I try to update it. I don't know if the update was done or if this
is some kind of fatal error:
cvs server: .wmlrc added independently by second party
> The other problem is that we are
> still deciding how links to other languages should be displayed.
>
> The links to the translations page are written using the native encoding,
> which won't show up correctly in some cases. One solution would be to move
> to a universal character set (ISO 10646). It is unclear to me how widely
> supported this is.
ISO 10646 is Unicode right? AFAIK it is supported by windows Arabic browsers,
but none under Linux does.
>
> I notice that you changed all the relative links to full URLs involving
> www.debian.org. This isn't a good idea as it redirects users away from
> the mirrors. Relative links are a Good Thing. Unless you have a good
> reason, don't change any URLs in the pages.
Sorry. The volunteer who translated the page used a WYSIWYG html editor and
I haven't checked everything before adding it. I've reworked it and I hope
everything is fixed now.
>
>
> --
> James (Jay) Treacy
> treacy@debian.org
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