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Package: debian-handbook
Version: 8.20151209
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
You may had some reason to chose recode over more readily available
iconv. That's OK but neither uses "Western" as the encoding name.
So use of "or" is awkward.
See my attached patch.
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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>From 15403e060f15db1c6427b8934fe1ab7a07314c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:04:51 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Western is never used as alias.
"or" is strange here.
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en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml b/en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml
index e71161d..d1da959 100644
--- a/en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml
+++ b/en-US/08_basic-configuration.xml
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ $ </computeroutput><userinput>ls travail/</userinput>
include encoding information that facilitates the tasks of the
software used to treat them; it is sufficient, then, to open these
files and re-save them specifying UTF-8 encoding. In other cases, you
- have to specify the original encoding (ISO-8859-1 or “Western”,
- or ISO-8859-15 or “Western (Euro)”, according to the
+ have to specify the original encoding (ISO-8859-1 for “Western”,
+ or ISO-8859-15 for “Western (Euro)”, according to the
formulations) when opening the file.</para>
<para>For simple text files, you can use <command>recode</command>
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Hi,
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The paragraph that you modify is before we introduce recode. It speaks
> of (random) (graphical) applications where you could have a list of
> encodings to select... and it shows two possible labels for each
> encoding.
>
> Try opening a .csv file with LibreOffice for example and you will have a
> sample of what we mean.
>
> Thus I don't think that your change makes sense.
>
> Do you understand? If yes, please close the bug.
I got no answers until now so I'm assuming that I was right
and I'm closing the bug.
Cheers,
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