1 Aug 2002 06:29
Bug#155059: about charset support
Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota <at> riken.go.jp>
2002-08-01 04:29:25 GMT
2002-08-01 04:29:25 GMT
Package: www.debian.org Version: 2002-08-01 Severity: wishlist I would like to add a sentence on what is charset support to cvs/webwml/international/l10n/index.wml, because I think charset support should be more stressed because (1) it is the basis of all other i18n/l10n and (2) people tend to forget laugages (which require special handlings) which are very different from their own. The following is the patch. Any comments? (I have a cvs commit permission. Can I do when discussion is finished?) --- index.wml.~1.16.~ 2002-03-26 15:59:34.000000000 +0900 +++ index.wml 2002-08-01 12:29:13.000000000 +0900 <at> <at> -14,7 +14,10 <at> <at> change the way the date is printed, you may express the way to do that in your part of the world. If the i18n allows you to change the set of characters used, l10n is the act of setting the charset you need -for a given language.</p> +for a given language. (Please note that charset support, +including multibyte, doublewidth, combining, bi-direction, and so on, +is a prerequisite for all other part of i18n and l10n, including +translation, for some languages.)</p> <p>l10n and i18n are tied, but the difficulties related to each of them are very different. It's not(Continue reading)
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> Matias Hermanrud Fjeld wrote:
> > Debian.org uses gifs! Shouldent png be used instead? I have posted to
> > debian-www and debian-user, but i have gotten no replies. Even if debian
> > legally has the right to use them, is it the right thing to do?
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> Regards,
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> Joey
AFAIK, GIF without LZW compression is OK. Matias, are you sure DEBIAN
uses wrong type of GIF?
... this comes up every few times in d-u. I guess GNU site needs better
explanation to stop this :)
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