pr guidelines, DES's name...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-03 17:00, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote this message on Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:44 +0200:
>>On 2004-11-03 22:53, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>On 2004.11.03 13:31:53 -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>>>> I just happen to notice that Mozilla 1.7.3 doesn't display des's
>>>> last name properly on:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/
>>>
>>> I think the real problem is that neither the webserver nor the
>>> document sets the character set.  It should be iso8859-1 and not
>>> utf-8, as can be seen from the directory name (en_US.ISO8859-1).
>>>
>>> I guess the right solution is to insert the proper metatag in the
>>> headers to force iso8859-1.
>>
>> That's relatively easy to fix.  Any objections to the following patch to
>> freebsd.dsl?
>
> not that I know it, but don't we need that to be applicable to only
> docs gen'd under en_US.ISO8859-1?  Shouldn't we do something in the
> makefile that defines the charset for each parent, and then use that
> charset for all files generated from the dir?

You're right, of course.  We already have SP_ENCODING, but I don't know
how to read its value from `freebsd.dsl'.  My DSSSL-foo is, I'm afraid,
really minimal.

- Giorgos