Re: [Koha-translate] to begin with...

[dbkliv]

address@hidden wrote:
> dbkliv wrote:
>
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have noticed that the french translation of the template files 
> > > contains
> > > diacritical characters which are represented with the &...; sequence
> We used the &...; sequence for want of a better solution : that way 
> we're pretty sure the characters will display properly, but it isn't 
> really easy to use : after a few é and ô you tend to get 
> lost in your own translation... Any suggestion of a better solution 
> welcomed.

A few things I dislike about HTML entities:

a) They expand the apparent length of translated text. Alignment
   gets confusing.

b) They're poorly documented for some languages; for others,
   non-existant.


> [...]
>
> > > Since I have used Kate Editor under redhat where polish diacritics are
> > > available directly I wonder whether I could leave it that way. Must I
> > > convert all the polish characters (ISO-8859-2, I hope) into the 
> > > &....; html
> > > sequence?
> >
> >
> >
> > ISO-10646 (Unicode) is probably the strongest bet here.
> I'd be happy to hear more about that...

I was suggesting ISO-10646 rather than ISO-8859-2. There would still
be some work involved to convert from html entities into whatever
codeset/s Koha decides to use.

http://www.unicode.org for more info.