Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that new web browsers which understand will NOT be confused by > any encodings. But some sites screw up the charset :-( Claiming to use one encoding and using another. > UTF-8 is not popular yet and some browsers may fail to display, > though

Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:36:39 +0100, David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the upper half? > Could SJIS be used instead? No. Additional explanations about real state of Japanese encodings: There are three popular encodings fo

Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"David Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the > upper half? No, but you may have been thrown off by the fact that EUC-JP is a proper ISO-2022 encoding. This is not the same as a ISO-2022-JP encoding. See Ken Lunde's CJKV, Chap. 4

Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [encoding story zapped] > > When the corresponding Japanese wml page has a Japanese title > (in #use wml::debian::template title="" line) which includes > a Japanese character which include include 0x22 (DOUBLE QUOTE) > in its pair of bytes, a pro

Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread peter karlsson
David Starner: > Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the upper half? You have EUC-JP, which encodes the JIS X 0208 at 0xA1-0xFE (it is the same encoding as ISO-2022-JP, but with the high bit set, and no escape sequences). > Could SJIS be used instead? Shift-JIS is a hor

Re: "Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread David Starner
Writes Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone have any idea to solve this problem? It seems to me you have two options: pick an encoding that doesn't have this problem, or change wml so it deals with ISO-2022-JP. Doesn't ISO-2022-JP have a form that invokes JIS X 0208 into the upper h

lists in mbox format

2001-07-05 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Hi, I wonder why don't give the archives of the mailing lists in mbox format too. It is much more convenient to browse them with mutt searching for something interesting. Regards -- Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\"Programmer\""

"Sitemap" webpage

2001-07-05 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, I found that some items of Japanese version of "Sitemap" page are broken. http://www.debian.org/sitemap.ja.html I researched this problem and found the reason. However, before explaining it, I will have to explain the encoding used for Japanese web pages. Japanese web pages (wml sources

Re: Sorting of the language list

2001-07-05 Thread Kaare Olsen
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:03:08 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: >On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:42:32PM +0200, Kaare Olsen wrote: >> Oh! Is the language slice used elsewhere? If not, we could >> change the first letter of all the (European) language names >> to be in upper case > >Please don't do that. (

Re: Idea about the language links

2001-07-05 Thread peter karlsson
> If you like the idea, I can add it, I have hacked this file before. :) I have done the modification locally, and it seems to work very well (I tested it in several of the translations). If any of the webmasters say it's okay, I'll check it in. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ St