Re: Building Press Pages for Web site

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: 16 January 2005 22:12
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site
>
> Dave,
>
> > 1) el and hu are badly formatted. There are html tags at
> and around the
> > page title blocks that need to be removed.
>
> OK, will check.

Sorry, I didn't check well enough. From the pr cvs, the following need fixing: de, fi, hu, ja, pl, se, si

>
> > 2) el, fr, ja, pl, se and tr are not in utf-8 (as far as my language
> > ignorant brain can tell). The entire site is dispatched in
> utf-8, and
> > changing that is non-trivial. Can these be recoded so that
> they display
> > correctly?
>
> This is why I brought up the encoding issue last week.    At
> the time, no one
> had an opinion.   I can command-line convert them to UTF8,
> and we'll see how
> they look.

Sorry, I must have missed that question.

> > 3) I needed to add some languages to the website framework,
> for which I
> > do not have to proper localised description (eg. en ==
> English, de ==
> > Deutsch). Can you ask the translators to let me know the correct
> > description **encoded in ASCII using HTML entity codes
> where required**
> > for the following please? br, el, fi, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, se, si.
>
> Hmmm ... given that I don't understand what **encoded in
> ASCII using HTML
> entity codes where required** means, it's a cinch some of the
> translators
> won't either.   Enlighten me?

HTML entity codes may be used for non-ASCII characters, e.g. Álvaro's name has an accent over the A, so we can code it
inASCII as: 

Álvaro Herrera

Thanks, Dave.