[pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-06 Thread jcheng8
Hi, first time pollen user here. I am trying to write a book in Chinese. Seems like Chinese could not be correctly parsed by pre-processor. Below is an example. Is there a way to get it working?Thanks a lot. *vegetables.pp* #lang pollen Vegetables Broccoli 西蓝花 *output in browser:* Vegetables

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-06 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 6:34 PM, jche...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, first time pollen user here. I am trying to write a book in Chinese. > Seems like Chinese could not be correctly parsed by pre-processor. Below is > an example. Is there a way to get it working?Thanks a lot. > > vegetables.pp > #la

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-06 Thread Leandro Facchinetti
I can reproduce the issue you mention, but it has nothing to do with Pollen, which supports Chinese just fine. The one to blame is the browser! In the image above, I visited the same document in Safari (top) and using a command-line program called cURL (bottom). Safari breaks the Chinese text

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-06 Thread jcheng8
Thanks a lot for the prompt reply, Matthew and Leandro. I verified the text now shows ok with the UTF-8 coding. Go pollen :) On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 12:55:12 PM UTC-5, Leandro Facchinetti wrote: > > I can reproduce the issue you mention, but it has nothing to do with > Pollen, which

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-07 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 7:55 PM, Leandro Facchinetti wrote: > > Pollen does not come with opinions regarding enconding, the author (you) has > to specify it. PS By default, all Racket strings are encoded as UTF-8. And thus, so are Pollen strings. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/encoding

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-07 Thread Leandro Facchinetti
Right, I should have been more specific. When I said “Pollen does not come with opinions regarding enconding,” I was thinking of HTTP headers, HTML meta-tags and so forth. These are ways to instruct clients (for example, browsers) which encoding to use, and neither Racket nor Pollen include such

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-07 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:53 PM, Leandro Facchinetti wrote: > > the Pollen development server could send an ‘Content-Encoding’ HTTP header, > to avoid issues like the one jcheng8 reported. By default, it would send > ‘UTF-8’, but this choice could be parameterizable via the ‘pollen/setup’ > mech

Re: [pollen] Does pollen pre-processor support languages other than English?

2017-09-07 Thread Leandro Facchinetti
Fair enough 😀 -- Leandro Facchinetti https://www.leafac.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pollenpub+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options