Subject: Re: Documentation pages
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 06:04:54 CST
--- Jared Davis <abiword@aiksaurus.com> wrote: >
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
> 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.
Entities is one fix but the easier correct way to do
it is just to put the proper encoding declaration
inside the <head> block:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
Andrew Dunbar.
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