On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:38:43PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > I think it may be best if this encoding changes are done at the same
> > > time when this documentation is moved to docbook-xml format.
> >
> > I'm entirely not convinced that we should go beyond ASCII because a program
> > can't be taught to convert © into (C). It's just that, nothing else.
>
> I think we may be discussing slightly different things. I do not
> understand what you ment by the above message. They are taught to do
> so, I think.
>
> Current debiasndoc-sgml creates copyright section starting with
>
> HTML: Latain-1 code for © (1 character)
> PDF: Latain-1 code for © (1 character)
> Plain text: ASCII 3 characters (C)
>
> That was today's build of my documment results. The source are like:
>
> <copyrightsummary>
> Copyright © 2001–2002 by Osamu Aoki <&osamu;>.
> </copyrightsummary>
>
> The plain text does not go beyond ASCII. Neither UTF-8 nor ISO-8859-1.
% zgrep Š /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
Copyright Š 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.
How do you explain that? Honest question :)
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2. That which causes joy or happiness.
