hi Bob, The change wouldn't be a hardship for me as I postprocess the built html to use utf-8 encoding anyway. Yet I'm resistant to change. So whatever you think best is fine with me. thanks for checking in, --Tim
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net> wrote: > We have a bug report suggesting that the default output encoding for the > DocBook html stylesheet be changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. Note this > only applies to the original HTML 4 output from the "html" directory. The > "xhtml" and "xhtml5" outputs already output UTF. > > The original HTML 4 standard said ISO-8859-1 was the default encoding, but > that UTF-8 would be acceptable. It isn't difficult for a user to change > the output to UTF-8, but it does require a customization. The question > here is whether to change the default output encoding to UTF-8. > > This would change the HTML output to replace character references like > &#xXXXX; to actual UTF-8 encoded characters, and change the encoding > information in the header to reflect that. > > I'm reluctant to change something that will break the builds that DocBook > people depend on. Would this impact you if the change was made? > > Bob Stayton > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > [bugs:#1400] Default encoding for HTML-based outputs > . > Status: open > Group: output: HTML > Created: Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:41 AM UTC by Radu Coravu > Last Updated: Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:41 AM UTC > Owner: nobody > > One of our clients reported that the default output encoding for Docbook > to HTML is ISO 8859-1 which is not suitable at all for other languages with > extended char sets like Russian: > > https://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14812&p=43711#p43711 > > Maybe the default language for HTML (and also for HTML chunk) should be > changed to be UTF-8 as UTF-8 is already used as the default language for > XHTML. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > >
