Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:03:19 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?VWxyaWNoIFNww7ZybGVpbg==?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please review, small SGML entity cleanup Message-ID: <50DEEA17.90802@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121229124833.GC69724@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20121228171424.GZ69724@acme.spoerlein.net> <50DECF3E.2020502@FreeBSD.org> <20121229124833.GC69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
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On 2012.12.29. 13:48, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 12:08:46 +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: >> >On 2012.12.28. 18:14, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >>> > >The DE and FR articles are a hodgepodge of SGML entities and direct, >>> > >8bit chars, with the former being the majority. This patch cleans this >>> > >up a little, although we should eventually switch this all to UTF-8, >>> > >obviously. >> >Don't they work with direct chars? Once we made a step to that direction > They probably will, and I have no clue why we used entities for German > and French, but the usual encodings for Russian and Japanese, etc. > >> >so this one would be one step back. If possible, it would be better to >> >convert the entities to direct chars instead of the opposite. > In the end, sure. But that's a larger project of moving from > de_DE.ISO8859-1 -> de_DE (with an implied UTF-8 encoding, as is required > by XML anyway, the implied part, not the exact encoding). It isn't required by XML. If you omit the encoding part of the XML declaration, the content is treated as UTF-8 but it is not a requirement at all. > > I don't think this commit is a step back, because the documents need to > be converted using a long series of s/ü/ü/g, anyway. And the > current mish-mash is just weird. I don't see any reason why we cannot do this conversion right now in ISO-8859-1. (Actually, I did, but people kept introducing new redundant entities.) ISO-8859-1 isn't any harder to type than UTF-8. If you want consistency (which imho isn't that important at this point since there are lots of upcoming changes) then why not move to the right direction of consistency? Gaborhome | help
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