We *could* use the "flag image" idea... or...
if we use a gimp script for the language names and...
If we use english "ALT" tags and leave it at that...
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:57:04PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:19:00PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Antho
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:19:00PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Anthony Wong:
>
> [Images instead of non-printable characters for language links]
> > Maybe the only universal solution is to use graphics?
>
> Is anyone working on this? (Would preferrably be people that know the
> languages in qu
Anthony Wong:
[Images instead of non-printable characters for language links]
> Maybe the only universal solution is to use graphics?
Is anyone working on this? (Would preferrably be people that know the
languages in question, and can create the images correctly?
James A. Treacy:
> If we decide
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:27:02PM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:06:29AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> |No, WML files can be in their own encodings. The generated .html is what
> |needs to be in UTF-8; conversion from any other encoding is automizable
> |so the d
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 06:06:29AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
|On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:51:05AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote:
|> UTF-8 is good, but AFAIK we can't mix 2 encodings in one page. Unless
|> we convert all WML files to use UTF-8 it doesn't help.
|
|No, WML files can be in their
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:51:05AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote:
> UTF-8 is good, but AFAIK we can't mix 2 encodings in one page. Unless
> we convert all WML files to use UTF-8 it doesn't help.
No, WML files can be in their own encodings. The generated .html is what
needs to be in UTF-8; conversion
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 11:25:48PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
|On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:47:44PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
|> > Maybe the only universal solution is to use graphics?
|>
|> Perhaps, but it would be nice not having to do that. But as a last resort,
|> it could be used t
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:47:44PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Maybe the only universal solution is to use graphics?
>
> Perhaps, but it would be nice not having to do that. But as a last resort,
> it could be used to show the non-Latin languages.
What'd be wrong with using UTF-8?
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Anthony Wong:
> Although removing the encoding part from the HTML corrects the problem,
If you do that, you will get incorrect encodings for the other parts of the
text.
Hmmm, is it possible to define an encoding for just a *part* of an HTML
document? It is possible to define languages for diffe
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 02:42:42PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
|Darren O. Benham:
|
|> > Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the
|> > characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at
|> > the bottom of the screen.
|
|Me:
|
|> Not necessa
Darren O. Benham:
> > Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the
> > characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at
> > the bottom of the screen.
Me:
> Not necessarily, modern browsers configure themselves automatically
> corresponding
Darren O. Benham:
> Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the
> characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at
> the bottom of the screen.
Not necessarily, modern browsers configure themselves automatically
corresponding to what the doc
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 08:08:59AM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:22:14AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> >
> > I looked now on how it was implemented, and I think it could have been done
> > a little bit cleaner. The language names are used in other places than just
>
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:22:14AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Darren O. Benham:
> >
> > > I know that some people (like those in the US) will get garbage for some
> > > language names (like Japanese)
>
> I looked now on how it was implemented, and I think it could have been done
> a little
Yes.. but the person being served the wrong page will most likely have the
characterset loaded that's necessary to make sense of his language name at
the bottom of the screen.
I'm not as concerned if english speaking people (for example) see a little
garbage at the bottom of the screen in an area
> Darren O. Benham:
>
> > I know that some people (like those in the US) will get garbage for some
> > language names (like Japanese)
I looked now on how it was implemented, and I think it could have been done
a little bit cleaner. The language names are used in other places than just
the transl
Darren O. Benham:
> I know that some people (like those in the US) will get garbage for some
> language names (like Japanese)
The problem is the character sets, since the word for "Japanese" uses
characters from the Japanese character set, while the character set for, for
instance, the Swedish p
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 09:49:04PM -0700, Debian WWW CVS wrote:
> CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml
> Module name: webwml
> Changes by: gecko 99/10/28 21:49:03
>
> Modified files:
> english/template/debian: language_names.wml languages.wml
>
> Log message:
> Each language is represented in it
> Modified files:
> english/SPI: Makefile
> english/SPI/template: template.wml
>
> Log message:
> SPI Logo
In this case, the logotype should have an ALT text, namely the name of the
company. And it should be a headline:
since it *is* the headline for the page, and that name i
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 01:28:57AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Added files:
> > english: search.wml
>
> Uhm, you do know that using heading markers just to get larger text isn't
> really that a good idea, don't you?
>
> I think I'll change that into for the Swedish translation.
> Added files:
> english: search.wml
Uhm, you do know that using heading markers just to get larger text isn't
really that a good idea, don't you?
I think I'll change that into for the Swedish translation...
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