RE: Sprout 18 and 19 are GO

Hi Jack,

Thanx!

Manfred Riem
[email protected]
http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Catchpoole [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nbmarketing] 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
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