On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:12:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Simon Paillard wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Could you please describe the steps you have performed and how ? > > I actually used (sponge is from moreutils): > $ for i in $(find -type f); do \ > iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 $i | sponge $i; \ > done
Didn't know about sponge, thanks. > I then checked the result with 'cvs diff -u'. That showed some pages > (incorrectly) already had utf-8 encoded chars, so I reverted those. Right, this should be checked as well (a grep in the German part is simple as German uses only 4 common 8 bit characters). > It turned out that this mangled the generated $Date fields (2007-01-01 > had become 2007/01/01); I corrected that by doing (possibly not strictly > necessary as the server would update them anyway on commit, but I wanted > my diffs clean): We had already in the past trouble because of this as the changed data field resulted in conflicts in the working copy on www-master. That is probably a CVS bug ... > I also did a cleanup, replacing entities by encoded characters, e.g: > $ for i in $(find -type f); do sed -ri "s/ä/รค/g" $i; done Indeed this is useful and simplifies searches via grep in the source. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
