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Re: [PATCH/RFH] Mark user-manual as UTF-8

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TPThierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr>
Date
Jul 24, 2007, 10:45 UTC
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<46A5D831.6090608@sophia.inria.fr>
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<4753DAE3-2F1F-49C0-906A-09CBAF240C87@wincent.com>
Hi there - I'm the wierd guy :-)
I've just reloaded the page and the weird stuff has gone.
Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
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> El 24/7/2007, a las 9:46, Junio C Hamano escribió:
>
>> There have been several complaints against k.org's user-manual
>> page.  The document is generated in ISO-8859-1 by the xsltproc
>> toolchain (I suspect this is because released docbook.xsl we use
>> has xsl:output element that says the output is ISO-8859-1) but
>> server delivers it with "charset=UTF-8", and all h*ll breaks
>> loose.
>>
>> This attempts to force UTF-8 on the generating end.
>
> Thanks for doing this, Junio. I was one of the people who reported 
> this (although never saw my mail get through to the list).
>
> Funnily, enough, about an hour after you posted your patch another 
> email ("git documentation - user manual html version has wierd [sic] 
> characters all over the place") was posted to the list...
>
> Cheers,
> Wincent
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Message 4 of 5 in “Mark user-manual as UTF-8”
  1. Mark user-manual as UTF-8Junio C Hamano, Jul 24, 2007
  2. Jeff KingJul 24, 2007
  3. Wincent ColaiutaJul 24, 2007
  4. Thierry ParmentelatJul 24, 2007
  5. J. Bruce FieldsJul 24, 2007

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