Subject: Documentation pages
From: Jared Davis (abiword@aiksaurus.com)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 01:00:59 CST
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Subject: AbiWord Pages in Spanish
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:18:21 -0800
From: Dave Hickman <drhickma@concentric.net>
To: webmaster@abisource.com
The AbiWord pages in Spanish on the Web site do not display correctly on my
browser (Internet Explorer (and I suspect the problem is common to many
other browsers as well). The problem is the way the non-English characters
are represented, those characters with an acute accent or a tilde. The
character set normally used by browsers will mangle the characters.
I'd recommend using the HTML "entity" codes to represent these characters.
For example, an "n" with a tilde over it (which you represent with the "ñ"
character) should instead be represented in HTML as "ñ" Similarly,
an "e" with an acute accent ("é") would be "é" (in all cases
omitting the quotes, of course. The inverted question mark would be
"¿".
A page that shows this problem is:
http://www.abisource.com/help/es-ES/index.html
I've attached AbiWord-Spanish.htm, which is a copy of the above page, but
with the character entities used for these special characters. This version
displays correctly.
The page in French at
http://www.abisource.com/help/fr-FR/index.html
has the same sort of proglem.
The German page at
http://www.abisource.com/help/de-DE/index.html
has the character entities used correctly, so already displays properly and
needs no changes.
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