[WM] Japanese ettext issues (fwd)

[Bryce Harrington]

FYI

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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:18:38 +0900
From: "SAKUMA, Junichi" <jun.osdl.jp>
To: bryce.osdl.org
Cc: rknopp.osdl.org, ybp.osdl.jp
Subject: ettext

Bryce,

You said you were working on the re-design of the web.
Could you consider *not* to use Text-EtText to generate the site?

Because:

#1 EtText breaks Japanese character strings.
   To process *.ettext, you use tgen. tgen calls
   Text::EtText::EtText2HTML and it calls
   HTML::Entities(included in HTML-Parser) inside.
   But HTML::Entities doesn't care about wide characters at all
   and converts characters to entity references. Then if you
   translate *.ettext into Japanese you'll get an unreadable
   series of characters. I've been trying fix this lately
   but it seems hopeless.

#2 It takes two different steps to generate the whole site.
   build_site.pl takes care of *.tmpl in osdl/text/public
   but the *.ettext files reside in the other repository
   and we need extra steps to convert and merge them.
   I just want to make it simpler in order to transfer
   the skill to non-technical people, who will be hired to
   deal with the JP site management as well as translation.

It'll be nice if I can hear what you think about this
in the tele-conf tomorrow.

Thank you,

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SAKUMA Junichi <jun at osdl.jp>
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