Re: automatically-generated ISO-8859-1 characters in mulbibyte webpages
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:36:11AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > I find only 18 names in people.names containing non-ASCII letters,
> > so /org/www.debian.org/cron/people_scripts/people.pl could contain
> > some extra elsif in its canonical_names function to replace
> > non-ASCII letters by HTML entities. Most names seem to be ISO-8859-1
> > encoded.
>
> I implemented your idea. Here is a patch. I assumed all 8bit
> characters to be ISO-8859-1.
Hmm, I see how the already-hardcoded ones need to be fixed immediately, but
shouldn't there be a Perl module which we could use to convert stuff
automatically? I never bothered to look for it, but the number of hardcoded
names just because of the character set shouldn't be growing, it's a pain to
maintain.
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