[fpc-pascal] Web site now translatable

[Tomas Hajny]

đŁÔŇ ëĎÓÁŇĹ×ÓËÉĘ wrote:
>> > Op Tue, 21 Nov 2006, schreef ???? ???????????: <-- it's me
>> >> > If you would like to make the FPC website available in your own
>> >> language,
>> >> What encoding does it need? UTF8, UTF16, language specific (for
>> >> example, five are supported by Opera for cyrillic text, windows-1251
>> is
>> >> the most common).
>> > Whatever you prefer. The database uses UTF-8, but I can configure the
>> > website generator to generate any encoding.
>> Well, preferably the WWW server should accept the charset configured in
>> the browser...
> and
>> Nooooo,
>> the browser should detect the charset sent by the server, and display it
>> correctly
>> If the client can do it, let the client do it. Golden rule for writing
>> robust servers.
>
> I asked about encoding, because it is possible to enter text in incorrect
> encoding into "translator" (i.e.: "translator" supposes the text to be in
> windows-1251 and I enter text in ISO-8859-5 [for cyrillic text]).
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That was the point (submitting text rather than displaying it), indeed.
However, Michael's suggestion still applies perfectly - you can't really
guess well on the client side what encoding is expected by the server. ;-)

Tomas