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Re: /mirrors/sponsors.list breakages



On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  So, what to do? patching mirror_list.pl is required for HTML output
> anyway. Leave the file in iso-8859-1 and use
> HTML::Entities::encode_entities() on the output, or change the file to
> utf8 and replace all the 8bit characters with their &#; representative?
> 
>  I am willing to provide the patch, but I don't want to patch in a
> direction that is most propably going to need tweaking RSN again.
> 

I think converting it to utf-8 would be preferable. If we add the names
of European people in a suitable form, why not also others, like
from East Asia?

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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