On 02-12-10 16:29:16 CET, Michael Bell wrote: > Robert Joop wrote: > > >you should use UTF-8, of course! ;-) > > > >the question is whether to use one charset or handle multiple charsets > >for the l10n files, right? > >michael, you are sitting only some 80 km away from słubice (the > >neighbouring town of frankfurt/oder), the ł of its name is not contained
as i can see, your setup seems to be UTF-8 capable, the character got back unharmed. > >in ISO 8859-1 (but 8859-2). > > > >but is every developer ready and willing to (at least partially) switch > >to UTF-8? > > We have two po-files per language (openca-html.po and openca.po). So we > can use different charactersets for different languages but it would be > nice if we could use only one or two charctersets for all files. two character sets? i can think of only one good combination: ASCII and UTF-8, everything else sucks. > What we have to do if we want to switch to UTF-8? It sounds like you two options? - output UTF-8 to all web browsers; i don't know whether that's a good thing to do, but openca requires a quite capable browser already anyway... - convert the UTF-8 to one of the charsets that the user's browser sent in its accept-charset header. - have a table of language to charset mappings. i doubt this is an option, different users may want different charset, especially in asia...? > know what's necessary. (Another question - how do you create this > special l?) in this case, it was a simple matter of copy-paste from one xterm to another. :-) i simply opened a file with geographical coordinates i've got lying around. otherwise, in vim i could enter ^Vu0142 to get the ł <- just did it. for more common characters like ä ö ü ß € ☺... i've got mappings ^La ^Lo ^Lu ^Ls ^Leur ^L:)... but you're an emacs person? i partially switched to UTF-8 about one year ago because of the switch from DM to €, most of the vi mappings are more than 10 years old. rj ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ OpenCA-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-devel
