On 6 Dec 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: > well, using AUTHORS is probably a bad idea since it is the ASCII-only > version generated from the file contributors which also has UTF8 > encoded names. Actually, it reads contributors and not AUTHORS. It's just your script that creates AUTHORS, etc, hacked up to generate a web page. > I'd really like to replace this mess by something saner and I was hoping > that we could come up with something that also fits the needs of the > web-site authors. I'm certainly willing to discuss this. > If you don't want us to cooperate on this subject, I'll just change the > files to fit my needs (or rather the needs of the GIMP core hackers) and > you'll have to do script hacking to get your page done. However I'd > rather see use a format we have discussed beforehand. If you don't like > XML as I suggested, perhaps we can come up with something else... XML is probably overkill, but anything is fine as long as it is easily parsed. Our biggest need right now is a latin-1 version of the names with special charactors. The web page needs to be in latin-1 because most web browsers aren't very good with UTF-8. Right now I'm running recode manually, and then hand-editing the file because recode seems to chew off some perfectly normal looking characters from the file. Perhaps the header/footer text of the web/AUTHORS/*.h files can be embedded in the contributors file, or, more cleanly, the script would take two files, one of which is a stylesheet-type thing that the script uses to create the output file from the contributors file. Rockwalrus
