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

Jack Catchpoole a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Russian, French, Dutch and English "Edge's" are now live on the
> site :
>
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-21_ru.html
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-21_fr.html
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-21_nl.html
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-21.html
>
> Also, the Russian, French, and English editions just went out to
> the appropriate mailing lists.
>
> Note the filenames, as well as the directory where Edge's will
> be archived, has changed.
>
> Apologies to translators for the delay in getting this edition
> out.  Since I had to do some work on Sprout/The Edge for the
> new design etc, I took the chance to clean up some old bugs.
> A short list :
>
> - the "bookmarks" as specified in translated XML files should now
>   work correctly and appear in translated editions (previously they
>   were ignored);
>
> - 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;
>
> - 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);
>
> - process is reasonably well internationalised now, so adding
>   new languages should be very easy;
>
> - and many many smaller bugfixes;
>
> I was working on getting localised subjects for the translated
> mails, but that is a little tricky and I ran out of time.  Maybe
> for next issue.
>
> Any problems pls let me know.
>
> Great work everyone!

Also the english text "translated by" that appears in translated files.
It would be nicer if we can see that text in the appropriate language.
So I really think it would be a good idea to move all hardcoded text 
from the layout to the xml file.

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