[Localization] phpmyfaq -- requesting your input

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Todd,

I took a look at the instance of Phpmyfaq at
http://faq.laptopspace.org/ and I am getting corrupted display of the
text for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Arabic.  I did
not test comprehensively, so other scripts may also not appear
correctly.  I did also however test Japanese which seems to be OK.

Note that I tested using Firefox 2.0.0.5 on Linux, Opera 9.10 on
Linux, Safari 3.0.3 on WinXP, Firefox 2.0.0.7 on WinXP, and Internet
Explorer 7.0.5730.11 on WinXP: The problem appears in all of these
browsers, so it is not just a fluke with my browser, fonts, or
workstation.

Looking at the XHTML, I see that there is no reference to UTF-8 in the
HTML of the outer frameset, but there is "<meta
content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8"
http-equiv="Content-Type"/>" for the main content frame.  I'm not
really sure why Phpmyfaq is using a frameset anyway, but I am a bit
suspicious that that is not the real problem, although it might be ...

Is there any possibility that some of the data files were corrupted,
perhaps by being untarred during installation in a non-UTF-8 locale
such as a Latin-1 locale or something like that?  The nature of the
corrupted text makes me suspicious about something like that having
occurred.  Or perhaps the web server is not actually set to send out
UTF-8 pages? The HTML headers do appear to have encoding set to UTF-8,
so I'm really not sure what the problem is.

Anyway, it looks like something that should be investigated ...

Best Wishes - Ed Trager

On 10/30/07, Todd Kelsey <tekelsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kim, dev, anyone,
>
> - I put a general page up at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Phpmyfaq for the purpose of
> capturing information and helping to take as much drain as possible off of
> developers; there are some general thoughts there.
>
> - Please consider visiting the page and putting down what you think are the
> most commonly asked questions on IRC, etc. The time you take to do this may
> be time you don't have to spend answering questions inline
>
> Notes:
> - Perhaps whoever sets topic in IRC might consider including url to faq
> instance. at the moment it is a single phpmyfaq instance. not sure at what
> point it makes sense to have multiples. depends on categorization.
>
> - If anyone happens to be from germany and knows the phpmyfaq folks, or if
> anyone knows the fantastico folks, maybe we can make it easier to manage
> multiple instances (the main reason would be to have separate "top ten"
> lists within categories, where there may not be the need for global search
> -- or maybe some clever person can figure out how to have a meta search
> across multiple instances).
>
>
>
>
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