Subject: Re: Two patches, and a file to remove
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 18:25:18 CDT
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > character is converted to ',,' we have no way of knowing what the original
> > character was. ,, is not the same as U+201E, and browsers won't treat it the
> > same way. A couple of examples:
>
> [...]
>
> I agree with all that. So what is policy? Cater for older browsers? Or for
> newer (better) standards?
>
Don't cater for old browers. Create legitimate HTML that best represents
an abiword document./
> > What I've written here goes for *all* Unicode characters. There's no need
> > "reduce" them to similar-looking characters.
>
> Unfortunately wv/text.c contains _already_ some examples of that. If we
> follow your policy, that should be fixed too.
>
> So what to do? I am happy either way.
>
Fix what you can now. Fix the rest later.
Cheers
Martin
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