Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-13 Thread Chahine Hamila
"James A. Treacy" wrote: > This error means that someone else already added the file. Simply move your > copy out of the way and do a cvs update. okay > > > > The other problem is that we are > > > still deciding how links to other languages should be displayed. > > > > > > The links to the tran

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-13 Thread Chahine Hamila
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:54:09PM +0100, Chahine Hamila wrote: > > ISO 10646 is Unicode right? AFAIK it is supported by windows Arabic > > browsers, > > but none under Linux does. > > My Netscape Navigator 4.7 (under Debian) supports Unicode. At least it > claims

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:54:09PM +0100, Chahine Hamila wrote: > > Thank you. Actually I did but it looks like I forgot to commit it. Now that I > try I get this error message when I try to add, and it tells me I should add > .wmlrc when I try to update it. I don't know if the update was done or

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:54:09PM +0100, Chahine Hamila wrote: > ISO 10646 is Unicode right? AFAIK it is supported by windows Arabic browsers, > but none under Linux does. My Netscape Navigator 4.7 (under Debian) supports Unicode. At least it claims to... > Sorry. The volunteer who translated t

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-13 Thread Chahine Hamila
"James A. Treacy" wrote: > There are two things going on here. First, I didn't add the arabic directory > to the top Makefile until after the daily update (btw, you haven't created a > .wmlrc file. This is needed for wml to work correctly. I added one for you, > but you should check it for correct

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > This does not solve anything, as we'd have the same problem with the > ALT attribute for the images. We could leave the alt tags in english. It seems that many computer literate people can also understand, atleast SOME, eng

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 01:48:58PM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > "A picture is better than thousand words"? :-) I notice the same problem > too, esp. with the links to Chinese pages. Perhaps we should use *.GIF or > *.PNG to display the links in the bottom? This does not solve anything, as we'd h

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-11 Thread Anthony Fok
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:46:13AM +0100, Chahine Hamila wrote: > Hi, > 2) The link appears as messed up symbols. Since it was written in > ISO-8859-6 encoding and the page is entirely ISO-8859-1, is there any > way I would make the characters appear right or should I resign to > writing it in Lati

Re: broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 11:46:13AM +0100, Chahine Hamila wrote: > Hi, > I've uploaded yesterday the index.wml in Arabic. Today, after checking > the first page of Debian's site, I noticed two things: > 1) The link for the Arabic page exists and the page appears in English. > When we click on it to

broken link and wrong character set

1999-12-11 Thread Chahine Hamila
Hi, I've uploaded yesterday the index.wml in Arabic. Today, after checking the first page of Debian's site, I noticed two things: 1) The link for the Arabic page exists and the page appears in English. When we click on it to get index.ar.html we get an error message. 2) The link appears as messed u