Re: Sprout 18 and 19 are GO

Jack Catchpoole wrote:

> Anyway, I've just published NL Sprout 18, and EN, FR, RU, and NL
> Sprout 19s to testwww.  Once we've verified there are no glitches
> I will send them out to the appropriate lists.  They'll all
> propagate to www in ~1hr.

OK, I've just posted EN, FR and RU Sprouts to their appropriate
lists.  Again, sorry for the delay, this is my first Sprout
experience, and things are *not* set up smoothly.  I hope there
were no problems ...

Questions/Notes :

1) I suggest we also localise the Subject: line for translated
    Sprouts.  If you agree, please send me your translated version
    of (in UTF-8 if possible!)

    "The NetBeans Monthly Newsletter"

    (translated dates should not be necessary, I think ...).  I
    will add this to the scripts and the next issue can use it.

2) Currently we have a mixture of character sets for Sprouts ..
    It would make things much simpler, and consistent with general
    website policy, if we stuck to UTF-8 everywhere.  What do you
    think ?  Is this a problem for anyone ?

3) I found some strange behaviour in the scripts which looks like
    a bug to me, but maybe I'm missing something.  All newlines from
    the XML files were removed; but in HTML this means removing
    spaces between words.  So eg in all translated Sprouts, some
    words were joined ... I fixed (? changed) this, and re-published
    FR, RU, and NL web-Sprouts with the fixed text;

Any problems or outstanding issues please let me know.  Thanks.


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Jack Catchpoole
NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
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