My personaly opinion is UTF-8. The sooner we get everyone using it, the sooner we don't have these annoying charset issues :(
-Karl On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:05:42AM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote: > Thanks! I changed it to use the lengthy &#... encoding and it is appearing > fine on my site; let's see what happens when you guys update (the actual > taglines are in mirrors.txt; the php reads in this file and outputs pretty > html for the page itself). > > Any ideas why the old way worked on my server and not any others? > > Finally, should I *also* change the page encoding to be UTF-8, or should I > just leave it? > > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:34 AM, WebGate dv6 wrote: > > > Hello, > > Right, UTF-8 solve that for sure > > But please remember , when you synchronize , you custom UTF-8 will be > > overwritten to the original ISO-8859-1. > > So better way keep it as I suggest, work for any encoding. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: mirrors-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto:mirrors-boun...@open-mpi.org] On > > Behalf Of Karl Vollmer > > Sent: יום ה 18 פברואר 2010 14:16 > > To: List for Open MPI web mirror site administrators > > Subject: Re: [Mirrors] Webgate.il admins... > > > > Jeff, > > > > I'm not a webgate admin, and my way may be wrong. But I've always used the > > HTML codes when adding non-ascii characters to a webpage otherwise encoded > > in ISO-???? > > > > On that note it appears the problem is that the page headers are ISO-??? > > not UTF-8 > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > > <HTML> > > <HEAD> > > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > > > > At the top of the html code. > > > > Changing the content="???" to > > > > text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > > > in the /include/http_header.inc Fixed it on > > http://mirror.its.dal.ca/openmpi > > > > Let me know once you've seen it and I'll revert the file so I'm inline > > with upstream. > > > > -Karl > > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:51:11PM -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote: > > > Webgate admins -- > > > > > > I was proud of myself for getting the hebrew characters in the tagline of > > your site listed properly here: > > > > > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/mirrors/ > > > > > > However, this exact same text does not display properly on any of Open > > MPI's mirrors, even yours: > > > > > > http://mpi.webgate.co.il/community/mirrors/ > > > > > > As an ugly american, I rarely deal with i18n kinds of issues. :-( Can > > you hit me with a clue bat as to what I'm doing wrong? > > > > > > -- > > > Jeff Squyres > > > jsquy...@cisco.com > > > > > > For corporate legal information go to: > > > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mirrors mailing list > > > mirr...@open-mpi.org > > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mirrors mailing list > > mirr...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > > database 4876 (20100218) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > > database 4876 (20100218) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mirrors mailing list > > mirr...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors > > > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > > _______________________________________________ > mirrors mailing list > mirr...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mirrors >
