Greetings Gabriele, Thanks for your European point of view :)
The reason I was suggesting replacing ¬ rather than ¤cy; (which was another candidate I considered) was just that I thought it would be used less. If ISO-8859-15 replaces ¤cy; by € then I'd vote for just making that substitution. Regarding having a "translate_latin9" option, I would prefer to wait until we have a true unicode solution -- otherwise we could end up with scores of different config options. If we adopt CLucene and its libraries, we'll probably use full unicode fairly soon. $0.02 Lachlan On Mon, 31 May 2004 05:48 pm, Gabriele Bartolini wrote: > I write as an european user. We are replacing the formers ISO > LATIN 1 (ISO-8859-1) character set with the ISO LATIN 9 charset > (ISO-8859-15). > > I guess the only way to solve the euro problem is to handle a > ISO LATIN 9 translation, maybe by issuing the configuration > parameter translate_latin9. > > As far as the euro sign is concerned, in ISO LATIN 9 it > corresponds to 164, which in ISO LATIN 1 was used for the > 'currency' sign. > > By looking at the HtSGMLCodec.cc file, given the user wants the > ISO LATIN 9 charset, we should change for instance this row: > > myTextFromString = > " |¡|¢|£|¤|¥|¦|&sec > > with: > > myTextFromString = > " |¡|¢|£|€|¥|¦|&sec > > and in the same way the other 8 characters. > > It should not be hard to implement this feature which at run-time > switches to the right charset depending on the configuration. > > The solutions are 2: > > 1) ignore the other characters and substitute the ¤ entity > with € - it is not perfect but may work in most of the cases; > 2) issue the translate_latin9 configuration attribute and handle it > in the HtSGMLCodec.cc file. > > I am not aware of some possible bugs and misfunctionality with > these approaches. Please tell me if you think of any. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht://Dig developer DownUnder (http://www.htdig.org) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
