Subject: Re: a (very) brief Guide to Translating the website into German
To: None <netbsd-docs@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 01/15/2002 10:06:32
Rainer Brandt <rjhb@bb-c.de> wrote:
> For example:
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html lang="de">
> <head>
> <title>encoding test</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
> </head>
> <body> ....
Aah, yeah, I remmber...
> (That's what I uploaded to the W3C validator. Unfortunately, most
> clients don't know how to handle ISO-8859-15, which includes the
> Euro symbol.)
Hmm, not that we currently use it (to my knowledge anyway), but how is
the Euro symbol to be represented? I guess as a number-reference
(€)...
> Anyway, I think I'll end that discussion here.
> (It won't lead to anything. At least nothing useful.)
Fair enough. Maybe I should write "use the 'Neue Deutsche
Rechtschreibung', but when in doubt, use your best judgement" or
similar.
> (We'll get back to the pronounciation rules when you start offering
> audio files. The server isn't sitting in Bavaria or Saxonia, is it?)
*shudder* ;-)
I'd prefer an original Berlin pronounciation.
-Jan
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