Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:38:07AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > The English parts of the website currently seem to be encoded in > iso-8859-1. This causes issues in some cases where UTF-8 is used instead > of HTML symbol entities. An example of this is the draft financial > partners page: > > http://www.debian.org/partners/financial_partners.en.html > > Would it not be better to encode the website in UTF-8?
Now UTF8 is a defacto charset standard in Debian and other distributions, moving the pages to UTF8 would avoid encoding limitations and conversion mistakes. Out of the 49 languages available on the website, 19 don't use UTF8: $ grep CHARSET */.wmlrc |grep -vi utf | cut -d "/" -f1 | sort catalan chinese croatian czech -> english greek hungarian indonesian italian korean lithuanian norwegian polish portuguese romanian romanian russian spanish swedish The process used and issues met during migration of french translation is available at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2009/07/msg00230.html The main specific issue of moving the english version over other languages will be updating the po files of all languages. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org