Thanks for taking a look at the file, I appreciate it! :) On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:53:21PM -0600, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > Copied from: > > http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml > > I had taken a cursory look at that page earlier in the week, but didn't > have time to respond then, and more or less forgot about what it contained. > It looks totally different today, though. In fact, it's totally unreadable > in Netscape 4.7 (the green box with the stuff on cookies and patches covers > about the first 1/4 of the text), so I had to view it in IE (IEuuuugh!).
I promise it's always looked like that...Netscape 4.7 though. Ahh, your browser is over 5 years old. Think maybe it's time to upgrade? Mozilla is nice, as is Netscape 7...Phoenix is also pretty delicious as long as you don't need the extras (like mail and news) from Netscape. You're right, there's definitely no need to use IE. In fact the world would be a happier place if everyone used Linux (or Macs) as their workstation computers. > > * To apply the patch you need the htdig source code on your machine > > * and you must have permission to modify and create files in the > > * source directory. > > * Download and uncompress the patch, then copy it to the top of the > > * htdig source tree. Then run the patch command from the top of the > > * htdig source tree. patch applies the patches contained in the file > > * to the appropriate source code files and is usually run like this: > > patch -b < patch-file-name > > I'm pretty sure all the htdig patches still need -p0 or -p1, for patch > to find the file names correctly. Otherwise, if I'm not mistaken, you > will have to give the file names one by one to the patch command as it > prompts you. Ok......prompting is mostly just a pain though, right? Or will the above not work at all? I checked the man pages for "patch" but it doesn't make much sense to me. It said: -pnum or --strip=num Strip the smallest prefix containing num leading slashes from each file name found in the patch file. A sequence of one or more adjacent slashes is counted as a single slash. This controls how file names found in the patch file are treated, in case you keep your files in a different directory than the person who sent out the patch. > I can't really comment on the instructions you got, as I haven't > seen them. The ones on your web page don't say anything about how to > uncompress the patch. Instructions added. Credit added to you and your old browser. ;) > A few other nits to pick about your web page above: > - my surname is "Detillieux". > - there's a link to FAQ 4.10 that says 4.8 in the description text. Fixed and Fixed. I had your name spelled correctly once, but not the second time. Sorry about that. :/ > - the Config file section of Dealing with accents doesn't mention many > of the language-dependent attributes that should be set for a non-English > user interface. Do you mean that my Config File shouldn't be a sub-section of Dealing With Accents? I'm not sure what this comment means...the instructions get a little sketchy near the end as I ran out of steam while I was writing. :) I hope to go back to them at some point with a fresh brain and see if they actually make sense or not. My configuration files are also embarrassingly bad. Having them available to the world is supposed to be an incentive to fix them... > Thanks for the tidbit about i18n - I always wondered what that meant! There's also L10n (localization) and g11n (globalization). Note the capital L so that you don't confuse it with a 1. I think these are the best short forms ever. :) They're complete arbitrary and ridiculous. I'd always tried to make the 8 in i18n into "n-eight-tion" so that it would spell something. John Yunker's book _Beyond Borders: web globalization strategies_ showed me the light. emma :) -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
