On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:39:16PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > Can someone explain me why script copypage.pl changes for example string > > © to ? (BTW what's that? ;->) > > copypage.pl will replace any named entities with the actual character. > It is supposed to check the encoding for the target language. So in you > case (Polish) it should use ISO 8859-2, where it should not convert > © since the sign is not available. > > It works fine for me when I test it (does not convert © for > Polish). Could you give an example on when it goes wrong? It reads the > .wmlrc file from your language subdirectory to find the encoding. I didn't know that it reads .wmlrc file. I removed polish subdirectory and then I copied all of files. Sorry for trouble :/
Ok... can you tell me which entites will be converted?
> > Why is copypage.pl changing these entities?
> Because entities is sometimes used in the English files to help
> translators that are using non-iso-8859-1 systems to understand which
> characters are used, but for translations that are using these
> encodings where the characters are used they just waste space and are
> hard to work with, so it tries to be smart and replace them.
>
> It's all my fault, I hate entities used when there's no need to :)
May I leave them non-converted?
I have to copy/synchronize all files to another repository.
It would be much simpler to me if copied files will have only additional
wml::debian::translation-check tag and nothing else.
Then I can write simple script wich will compare these files.
regards
fEnIo
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