[Aptitude-devel] All documentation should be in UTF-8 encoding

[Daniel Burrows]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Miroslav Kure <kurem at upcase.inf.upol.cz> was heard to say:
> Etch was the first Debian release using UTF-8 encoding by default.
> Now, with Lenny approaching, I believe all files containing
> different characters than pure ASCII should be UTF-8 encoded.
> 
> Currently the documentation generated from docbook sources
> is by default encoded to ISO-8859-1 and therefore not very readable
> in UTF-8 environment.
> 
> The following patch changes the output encoding for html and text
> transformations: 

  Thanks for pointing that out.  One question:

> --- a/doc/aptitude-html.xsl	Mon Aug 25 16:10:25 2008 +0200
> +++ b/doc/aptitude-html.xsl	Sun Aug 31 17:58:10 2008 +0200

  [snip]

> +<xsl:param name="chunker.output.encoding" select="'utf-8'"/>

  [snip]

> --- a/doc/aptitude-txt.xsl	Mon Aug 25 16:10:25 2008 +0200
> +++ b/doc/aptitude-txt.xsl	Sun Aug 31 17:58:10 2008 +0200

  [snip]

> +<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/>

  Both the text and the HTML modes generate HTML as output, and they
use the same stylesheet.  Is there a reason you used different
techniques to set the output encoding in each case?

    Thanks,
  Daniel