Re: translate_latin9

Greetings Gabriele,

Thanks for your European point of view :)

The reason I was suggesting replacing  ¬  rather than  &currency;  
(which was another candidate I considered) was just that I thought it 
would be used less.  If ISO-8859-15 replaces  &currency;  by  €  
then I'd vote for just making that substitution.

Regarding having a "translate_latin9" option, I would prefer to wait 
until we have a true unicode solution -- otherwise we could end up 
with scores of different config options.  If we adopt CLucene and its 
libraries, we'll probably use full unicode fairly soon.

$0.02
Lachlan

On Mon, 31 May 2004 05:48 pm, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
>    I write as an european user. We are replacing the formers ISO
> LATIN 1 (ISO-8859-1)  character set with the ISO LATIN 9 charset
> (ISO-8859-15).
>
>    I guess the only way to solve the euro problem is to handle a
> ISO LATIN 9 translation, maybe by issuing the configuration
> parameter translate_latin9.
>
>    As far as the euro sign is concerned, in ISO LATIN 9 it
> corresponds to 164, which in ISO LATIN 1 was used for the
> 'currency' sign.
>
>    By looking at the HtSGMLCodec.cc file, given the user wants the
> ISO LATIN 9 charset, we should change for instance this row:
>
>   myTextFromString =
> " |¡|¢|£|¤|¥|¦|&sec
>
> with:
>
>   myTextFromString =
> " |¡|¢|£|€|¥|¦|&sec
>
>   and in the same way the other 8 characters.
>
>   It should not be hard to implement this feature which at run-time
> switches to the right charset depending on the configuration.
>
>   The solutions are 2:
>
> 1) ignore the other characters and substitute the ¤ entity
> with € - it is not perfect but may work in most of the cases;
> 2) issue the translate_latin9 configuration attribute and handle it
> in the HtSGMLCodec.cc file.
>
>   I am not aware of some possible bugs and misfunctionality with
> these approaches. Please tell me if you think of any.

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