Re: Sprou^H^H^H The Edge is out

Thanks a lot, Jack,

comments inline

>- UTF-8 everywhere :-)  All editions, all mails, are now UTF-8
>   encoded, which makes things much simpler for the website (and
>   publishing scripts);
>
>- To do the above, I had to set up auto-conversion of non UTF-8
>   input, ie tranlsated xml files can be encoded in non UTF-8 and
>   the import process will handle it automatically.  Not sure this
>   will work for all/other charsets, so UTF-8 is still preferred
>   for any new languages;

I think we (current localizers) should also switch to UTF-8 so that 
the scripts don't have to recode win-1251 russian encoding to UTF-8 
before publishing. At least the Russian issue sent to my e-mail had 
some strange artefacts (? marks) on some of the symbols, while on-site 
version is OK.

>- Not so visible but I did a big clean up of the internal process
>   by which the newsletters are generated.  Most noticable change
>   is that all language editions are now built from a single
>   template, whereas previously a new template had to be created
>   for each language.  This means all fonts/html/layout between
>   editions are identical (fixing the old font size problem in the
>   RU edition);

Thanks a lot, Jack.
You're the one!

>
>Great work everyone!

Especially you, Jack!

Maxym