Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: [DOC-HE] Re: [PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc / Makefile.in

[email protected] (Derick Rethans) Fri, 16 May 2003 20:30:25 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups	php.doc,php.doc.he
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Fri, 16 May 2003, shimi wrote:

> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> 
> > >>But we don't need to convert it to UTF8, who said that? ;) We ned to 
> > >>have some encoding which is recognized by xsltproc first. If 
> > >>windows-1255 is the same as iso-8859-8-i, then this is simply a matter 
> > >>of find/replace in the XML files to replace the encoding names, and then 
> > >>xsltproc will hopefully work.
> > > 
> > > This is what I really don't understand at all... Why does it need to be 
> > > converted, at all? The hebrew as it is in the original translated files is 
> > > already in the form that if will be displayed in the browser, will look 
> > > fine! I mean - don't change anything and it works. As long as you output 
> > > the relevant HTML tags in the final HTML output (that would be: <html 
> > > dir="rtl"> and <DEFANGED_meta charset="iso-8859-8-i">) - it will look OK.
> >  >
> >  > If xsltproc is just trying to be naughty, I think that even if you put
> >  > there (at the encoding) the value of iso-8859-1 (english) - the hebrew
> >  > will be displayed fine at the browser. I can't really check because I
> >  > really don't know how, but if you want to make such a file and send it
> >  > to me, I can see if it looks fine :)
> > 
> > Please read again what I have written. I am not talking about 
> > iso-8859-1. Where does it come to your mind??
> > 
> > Goba
> > 
> 
> It comes to my mind that if xsltproc doesn't change the hebrew, there's 
> nothing wrong with treating the whole file as plain english... and it will 
> work. That's unless xsltproc tries to *understand* every character and 
> character. 

It tries that, and the stuff just needs to be 'correct'... dont fool a 
computer.

Derick

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