Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by kubota: webwml/english/News/weekly/2002/33 index.wml
Hi,
At Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:00:25 +0200,
Denis Barbier wrote:
> Maybe copypage.pl should perform ISO-8859-1 to HTML entities conversion?
Sorry, I don't understand the mechanism well, but
- *.wml in english directory is for the original writers and translators.
It should be in ASCII (not ISO-8859-1) because it is the only
international encoding until we move to UTF-8, otherwise east Asian
people have some difficulty on editing it (because east Asian multibyte
encoding and ISO-8859-1 cannot co-exist).
- English *.html is for users who read web pages, and "charset=iso-8859-1"
web pages can have ISO-8859-1 characters. Since the English pages only
contains ASCII/ISO-8859-1 characters, we don't need to think about
co-existance of ISO-8859-1 and multibyte characters.
If copypage.pl is used when conversion from *.wml to *.html , it is
just opposite to my intension.
However, since the "difficulty" is not very large (and we have excellent
text editors such as emacs), east Asian translators can manage a small
amount of ISO-8859-1 characters in *.wml files.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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