On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:04:58PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:24:17PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:57:22PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:30:55AM -0700, DDP CVS wrote: > <snip/> > > > > Modified files: > > > > manuals.sgml/release-notes/de: release-notes.de.sgml > > > > > > > > Log message: > > > > use latin1 encoding instead of HTML entities to simplify > > > > proofreading > > > > and to increase compatibility with various tools > > > > > > I think you broke compatibility with XML & SGML tools. [1] > > > [1] both are ASCII only. > > > > The old code using ü and ß in each third word makes the SGML > > source code nearly unreadable. Please note that the previous version > > already contained a mixture of latin1 and ASCII. [snip] > > I also found a missing umlaut in the output (last PDF page) because > > <url id="&url-debian-i18n;" name="Übersetzungen"> > > was used but which works great using name="�bersetzungen". > > My concern is that the source is not pure 7-bit ASCII.
Please note that all versions of Release Notes (except English one) use 8bit characters. Do you really expect that a Japanese translator writes &entity1;&entity2;&entity3;...? > It should ASCII only for XML and SGML. But debiandoc-sgml supports all common locales, especially latin1, latin2,... > Jens, that you spend time on the release notes is good. > I do respect that. > > But your arguments to break stuff are poor. Maybe. I agree that pure ASCII has advantages but the current file can easily converted to another locale using iconv, recode, konwert, ... > * it is hard to proofread größe dateien It is! > Consider the SGML source as computer program source > and proofreading is running the programm. > Each "bug" you find, has to be modified in the source. > The edit-compile-test cycle can indeed be boring, > you shouldn't cheat by implementing "compiled blobs" > in the source code. I would really like to know other people's opinions. > As one volunteer to another volunteer: > > Please revert the latin1 changes First I will wait for more feedback. If the majority agrees with you I will revert my changes (but what about name="Übersetzungen" which doesn't work for url tags?). Jens
