[CentOS-devel] Re: Anaconda Slides in "Other Than English"

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 20:29:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:19:45 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> CentOS est une distribution Linux de type entreprise qui est construite
>> à partir des sources disponibles gratuitement et mises à disposition
>> au public par une société  importante d'Amérique du Nord
>> spécialisée dans la vente de produits Linux.
> 
> I think we have to find another way to redistribute the content of the
> slides. Everything I've seen this far had problems with special characters
> in it (spanish, japanese, this one here), so we cannot go with that. I
> don't think that everyone will see the german special characters either,
> if I'd post that.
> 
> The one up there looks like utf-8 characters in iso-8859-1x context.
> 
> The wiki seems to be able to handle special characters correctly, as it
> delivers utf-8 pages.
> 
> Should we do it on there?
> 
> Ralph

I kind of expected this problem.  In the case of Japanese (probably true
for other languages  also), there are so many different encoding methods. 
I chose utf-8 in my translation because the html file on the installation
CD is using it. And many, but not all, Japanese web sites use utf-8.

Akemi




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