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

[adam]

if u can look at the webpage and work out what the encoding should be i
think i can hack this in

adam


On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 22:50 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> Was there any fix found for this yet?
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:39, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "... imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an
> > interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself
> > in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me
> > staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such
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> > and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still
> > frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be
> > alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to
> > have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by
> > surprise."
> > Douglas Adams
> >
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