[udig-devel] Re: Foreign online help pages don't show special chars correctly

[Matthias Basler]

Jody wrote:
> Thinking; wonder if we need to update confluence? I will poke around on 
> the admin screens and see if find anything.
> 
> I see a setting here for "Encoding" - currently it is UTF-8. Is that okay?

Okay is when page content and encoding match and the html code correctly advertises what encoding it is using.
Otherwise I don't care. 

IS and Firefox allow to interpret the page as different character encodings, but with none of the usual ones it looks correctly.
The current content seems to be neither UTF-8 nor windows1252 nor UTF-16 nor ISO-8859-1.

> > I wouldn't like to manually correct any special characters in the whole
> online help. Is there any possibility to correct them more or less
> automatically (search&replace) in the while German wiki space?
> >   
> We can post process the results if you want; I already have to make the 
> line feeds consistent, but lets see if the wiki can be configured better.
> I have access to the templates used to generate the html; is there 
> something I can put into the header that will help out? Can you send me 
> a web page that shows the correct special characters and I will see what 
> I can do?

I have manually corrected the German start page as an example for you.
http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DE/Home

Hope that helps.
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Matthias Basler
matthiasbasler at earthflight.org