On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:13:21AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > slightly updated version is now also at: > > http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO > > http://people.debian.org/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO > > I'm glad you've written that HOWTO. It encourages me to take a look at > entering UTF-8 with X, instead of entering all non-ASCII stuff with > Emacs, which is what I currently do. > > Some comments: > > (1) If you did your document as HTML, even with the whole text in > <PRE>...</PRE>, then you could use > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> > > in the HEAD and it would look right with most browsers. > > How to put up a web page in UTF-8 might be something worth adding to > the document in any case, and an easy way to explain would be to make > your document into an example.
I wanted to rewrite the HOWTO using linuxdoc or docbook, but so far I was unable to make that work satisfactorily. I will probably just settle for plain HTML > > (2) I think the best way to set up the UTF-8 locale is to edit > /etc/locale.gen, rather than run localedef by hand, but you have to > run locale-gen after editing /etc/locale.gen, and I don't think you > mention that. I forgot about that :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
