Re: Re: cvs: phpdoc / Makefile.in

On Fri, 16 May 2003, shimi wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > > >>But we don't need to convert it to UTF8, who said that? ;) We ned to > > >>have some encoding which is recognized by xsltproc first. If > > >>windows-1255 is the same as iso-8859-8-i, then this is simply a matter > > >>of find/replace in the XML files to replace the encoding names, and then > > >>xsltproc will hopefully work. > > > > > > This is what I really don't understand at all... Why does it need to be > > > converted, at all? The hebrew as it is in the original translated files is > > > already in the form that if will be displayed in the browser, will look > > > fine! I mean - don't change anything and it works. As long as you output > > > the relevant HTML tags in the final HTML output (that would be: <html > > > dir="rtl"> and <DEFANGED_meta charset="iso-8859-8-i">) - > > > it will look OK. > > > > > > If xsltproc is just trying to be naughty, I think that even if you put > > > there (at the encoding) the value of iso-8859-1 (english) - the hebrew > > > will be displayed fine at the browser. I can't really check because I > > > really don't know how, but if you want to make such a file and send it > > > to me, I can see if it looks fine :) > > > > Please read again what I have written. I am not talking about > > iso-8859-1. Where does it come to your mind?? > > > > Goba > > > > It comes to my mind that if xsltproc doesn't change the hebrew, there's > nothing wrong with treating the whole file as plain english... and it will > work. That's unless xsltproc tries to *understand* every character and > character. It tries that, and the stuff just needs to be 'correct'... dont fool a computer. Derick -- "my other box is your windows PC" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------