On 2002-12-06 at 1320.24 -0800, Nathan Carl Summers typed this: > 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. > rockwlrs, is this something that i can do? carol
