sgml -> txt conversions

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Sat Apr 3 09:36:51 PST 2004


BTW, I noticed that a number of non-ASCII characters had been lost
from the text versions of the sgml-based docs that had been checked into the
tree, mostly mangling a variety of European names in contributor lists and
dropping a few registered trademark symbols and multiplication symbols.

They reappeared when I explicitly set my locale to en_US.ISO8859-1 on Solaris
and re-ran the doctools - they wouldn't show up if I didn't set that and I couldn't
get them to work in UTF-8 at all.  It appears they've been using ISO8859-1 so
far so I didn't fight too much - perhaps for the next release we can work on
converting to UTF-8.  For now, I've rechecked in ISO8859-1 versions of the ones
I saw that lost characters.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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