I can see why it would help to have documents in UTF-8 for internationalisation. However, remember that for CVS, these documents would have to be checked in as binary, else a big mess will happen.
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 01:40, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > Well, this is why I stick to be the translations of the japanese > off from apache.org. > If I put the japanese translations (Shift_JIS or EUC_JP) on apache.org, > I thought I had to convert them all to unicode escape seq style. I know > how to deal with the unicode escape seq, but I was not sure the others > could do the same. (Shift_JIS -> escape seq., escape seq. -> Shift_JIS) > > Of course, I am thinking about what you said. So, I proposed > "'translations guideline should be changed slightly to be fit to it??" > > FYI: > My favorite text editor is made in japan. Maybe most of the text editors > created by the japanese can not deal with the Ntildes etc. > (But, fortunately, my favorite Mail Client can deal with them, made in > japan) > > It goes for the codebase itself, too. Just Latin vs non-Latin problem. > > Sincerely, > > -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > P.S. Sorry, I do not want to mail in Kanji to apache.org > mailing lists. It would be just noisy. If you wish, I'll do it as a > personal mail to you, attached. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:28:04 +0200 > (Subject: Re: Proposal: All DOCUMENTS TO UTF-8) > Agust�n Mart�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Even though I have no vote, I would say stick with ISO-8859-1 or similar. > > Writing documentation in xml is fine, but if a translator has to start > > converting all his chars (�, �, �, �, �, �) to unicode, it will be a bit > > of a hassle. > > > > �Tetsuya, out of curiosity, what is your favourite editor that doesn't > > support latin1? > > > > If localized files/docs could use local STANDARD encodings, it would > > make life easier on translators. Tetsuya, you could write directly in > > kanji (is that the right name?) :-) > > > > My 2 cents, > > Agust�n. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Avik Sengupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
