Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 01:22:42 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: jlm@welearn.com.au Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGML->HTML: entities translation is broken for non-Latin1 charsets Message-ID: <20000306012241.B90731@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000306085513.A36255@phoenix.welearn.com.au>; from jon@welearn.com.au on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:55:14AM %2B1100 References: <20000304134300.A24194@nagual.pp.ru> <20000305203633.A89852@nagual.pp.ru> <20000306085513.A36255@phoenix.welearn.com.au>
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:55:14AM +1100, Jonathan Michaels wrote: > not just the russian pages, andrey. i use lynx (in freebsd > v2.2.7-release) with the standard character sets (i use iso > latin-1 or iso-8859-1. > > just thought you would like to know, and it looks ugly in the > english text as well ... grin. In lynx case you supposed either to load iso-8859-1 screen font or switch Display option to CP437 to see them. But if symbolic names will be preserved, you'll see correctly even in not properly tuned lynx. That's why I suggest to preserve HTML's symbolic names even for Latin1 pages. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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