From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Mar 5 9:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106A137BAD3; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA89889; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:36:33 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:36:33 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: nik@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org, phantom@freebsd.org, ru@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGML->HTML: entities translation is broken for non-Latin1 charsets Message-ID: <20000305203633.A89852@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20000304134300.A24194@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000304134300.A24194@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 01:43:01PM +0300 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexey Zelkin just inform me that   preserved in FAQ (good news!), so it seems there is some option exist to change this behaviour. Please try to find it or Russian pages looks very ugly in the browsers who have strict KOI8-R implementation like MSIE or lynx. On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 01:43:01PM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Looking at www.freebsd.org I found that sgml->html procedure replace > things like   © etc. with their Latin1 8bit hardcoded values :-( > > Please fix it ASAP, non-Latin1 pages are very broken otherwise. F.e. both > © and   have different 8bit codes in KOI8-R than in Latin1. > > Right way is to not translate &...; entities from sgml source at all and > leave them in place. Browser always know better substitution for them. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message