[Fwd: Re: umlauts in online help]

[Josh Sled]

Hey Linas...

I can't seem to use .htaccess files in the website to control the
Content-Type of the served content.  Can you please modify the
server-wide config to return UTF-8 as a default, rather than ISO-8859-1?

Thanks...

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> To: Sebastian Menge <sebastian.menge at uni-dortmund.de>
> Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>, gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: umlauts in online help
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:22:59 -0400
> 
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:14 +0200, Sebastian Menge wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 10.04.2007, 08:59 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> > > Oh, it's probably a UTF vs. ISO issue.
> > > Which URL are you reaching?
> > 
> > http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/de_DE/gnucash-help/help.html
> > http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-help/help.html
> > 
> > Even in the english version there are artefacts in the navigation parts.
> 
> The content is UTF-8.  There is a <meta> in the HTML saying as such.  I
> can't seem to get apache on www.gnucash.org to serve the content as
> UTF-8, however.
> 
> 
> > >From my experience the cause is often mixing iso and utf in one file.
> > e.g. template=iso and content=utf, or script=iso, content=utf.
> > 
> > vim is nice to switch encodings (:set fileencoding and :help encodings).
> 
> If you're suggesting that we open each file in `vim` and re-write its
> encoding, I'd suggest that `iconv` is scriptably easier, and we could
> just re-generate the content with a non-conflicting encoding.  I'd
> rather we just served UTF-8 properly.
> 
> Firefox also has a "Character Encoding" option, here in the View menu.
> 
> 
> This problem's has been happening for a while, but in part because
> making changes to www.gnucash.org is painful, it's gone unresolved.
> 
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