From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 10 3:34:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748F437B92F for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 03:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A115F181A0; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:33:29 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000409154425.A85284@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000407233952.A1610@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000409154425.A85284@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:52:48 +0200 To: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Spellings [was Re: BSDCon East] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:44 PM +0200 2000/4/9, Ollivier Robert wrote: >=20 Ugh. Don't do that again please Brad :-) Sorry, I occasionally have run-ins with one of the very small=20 percentage of the people in this company that are rather officious=20 and smarmy, and I have a knee-jerk reaction that I'm sure is unfair=20 to the vast majority. Or, were you complaining about the way the accented characters=20 got mungled [0] by the time they arrived at your system? I do find it funny that on the web pages of L'Acad=E9mie fran=E7aise=20 at , when you click on buttons=20 (such as the one labeled "Moteur de recherche"), it uses Javascript=20 to pull up URLs such as=20 "javascript:Pop2('./search/recherche.html','actu', 200, 200);". One wonders why they would use Javascript at all for this=20 function (it does lock out the people who don't have=20 Javascript-capable browers, most likely including most of the=20 visually-impaired)? However, if they did have to use Javascript, one also wonders why=20 the directory is named "./search" and not "./recherche"? In fact,=20 why have a directory at all, if you're then going to reference the=20 URL "recherche.html" within that directory? What about "index.html" -- have they changed the default for=20 Apache to be "incr=E9ment.html" instead (or whatever the correct french=20 word would be)? If they're going to be famously anal about protecting the=20 language from all possible encroachment from foreign languages, it=20 seems that they should apply these methods to their own website. In fact, it seems to me that they really should go all-out and=20 change the site over to a completely translated XML format, and not=20 use a single english word of HTML. [0] I define "mungled" to be a value with a proven minimum of munged=20 + mangled, a typical value of munged * mangled, and a maximum=20 theoretical upper bound of munged ^ mangled. To this degree, it is=20 similar to SNEF -- Situation Normal, Everything FUBAR. -- =20 These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message