[FM Discuss] Fwd: About http://translate.flossmanuals.net encoding

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 23:57, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis has noticed that the left hand menu of the Spanish version of
> "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" has some funny characters in it.
> Does anyone know how to fix that?

It stems from an encoding issue.

For instance, you can fix those chars into  ¿ by changing the encoding
of the page to Western ISO 8859-1, but then the centre text becomes
problematic. It looks like the two columns have different encodings at
some level - probably at the database table or row level in the left
column (set to Latin, swedish or western). I would suggest that the
main body of FM is fine, ie already set to UTF-8.

In chromium you can see this by going to options->tools->encoding
In firefox it's view->character encoding

Depending on how they were encoded in the first place, the best bet is
to confirm that all tables and rows in the DB are set to UTF-8
encoding. If not, you can change the encoding and it wont affect the
content. I can help at a more fine grained level if you want, but it
can also be done in phpmyadmin (for mysql) or with perl/sed/grep on a
dump that is re-imported.

If there is still a problem after that, the actual content will need
to be changed, but only on those chars that are now problematic -
future chars should be fine.

cheers
L.

>
> Thanks,
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Luis Miguel Morillas <morillas at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:52 AM
> Subject: About http://translate.flossmanuals.net encoding
> To: nicestep at gmail.com
>
>
> Hello, Jim
>
> I'm preparing an activity for XO. Walter Bender suggested me this link
> [1]. There is a problem with encoding. I think you're using two
> different encodigs (the left hand menu and the content). Walter said
> that you were the responsible of that document ;) .
>
> [1] http://translate.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar_es/Introduction
>
> cheers,
>
> -- lm
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