Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:06:27 +0100 (CET) From: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@fort-knox.rave.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>, Alessandro de Manzano <ale@unixmania.net>, <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ISO8859-15 docs (was: Re: cvs commit: doc Makefile) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.41.0201071653340.25721-100000@fort-knox.rave.org> In-Reply-To: <20020106121243.E36698@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:46:08PM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > > > Add it_IT.ISO8859-1 to list of SUBDIRS. Yay! > > > > > > excuse me, but now, maybe, the correct codepage should be ISO8859-15 > > > for most of the European countries (like Italy) because of the Euro > > > currency symbol present in -15 and not in -1.. > > > > I think you right. > > > > There're two possible options: > > > > 1. Repo-copy all european countries' docs to ISO8859-15 > > 2. Add special infrastructure to build ISO8859-1 docs as ISO8859-15. > > It should look like: > > [...] > > Are we ever going to need to keep a -1 and a -15 copy of the document in > the source tree? > As far as I know, -15 fixes support for e.g. French and Finnish by throwing out some rare accents, and replaces the universal-currency-symbol with euro. As far as I can see it, there's probably no reason not to switch to iso-8859-15. It probably won't matter even a bit, in documentation. > If yes, then add the infrastructure. If no, do a repo copy. > If somebody thinks we need the euro-symbol, go ahead. If not, well, not worth the trouble (IMHO). The difference between the two charactersets is so small anyway. > I think. > > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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