How to handle localized characters ans special symbols?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2006.02.04 20:33:54 +0100, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:

> I'm translating the FreeBSD webpage to Hungarian. I haven't done too 
> much so far, because I don't have too much spare time, but I'll finish 
> this translation. Today, I made a test build. You can see this here:
> http://tux.t-hosting.hu/data
> The most part of it is still in English but there are some translated 
> pages. The build succeeded quite good, I've found my mistakes easily and 
> managed to build the site, but I have troubles with one of the localized 
> characters. This is The o letter with two commas on it. Its standard 
> html code is ő, but the sgml parser substitutes it with a Q char. I 
> don't see why does it happen and don't know how to fix it. There are two 
> more problematic characters, and they are ® and ™. They are 
> also substituted in a wrong way. See:
> http://tux.t-hosting.hu/data/about.html
> You can notice the Z character with a ?? sign after the word Pentium and 
> a " after Athlon.
> How could I correctly display these characters? Please tell me what to 
> do so that we have a nice Hungarian webpage. :)
> 
> (I use Firefox and it selects the ISO-8859-2 Central European encoding 
> automatically.)

I think the problem is that your web server forces a character set
which prevents the character set in the HTML from taking effect:

[simon at zaphod:~] fetch -o /dev/null -vv http://tux.t-hosting.hu/data/about.html | & grep Content-Type:
<<< Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2

I'm not exactly sure how some of the other translations are handling
using non ISO-8859-1, but since e.g. ja and ru translations use
something which definitely isn't Latin characters I'm sure it can be
done.  See how those translations changes the character set as needed.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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