Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 11:00:51 +1000
From: Lachlan Andrew <lha@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Gabriele Bartolini <g.bartol@comune.prato.it>,
     "ht://Dig - Dev" <htdig-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Internationalisation tests and ... euro sign

Greetings Gabriele,

Someone just reported this as a bug...

I suggested replacing the "&not;" entity by a "&euro;" entity (see 
attached patch).  That is a real hack, since the "&#xxx;" 
representation of "&not;" will be incorrectly displayed as a euro 
sign instead of a not, but it should do until we get unicode support.

Should we commit this hack, or just leave it as an optional patch?

Lachlan

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:22 pm, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> Ciao guys,
>
>    I have tested the attributes that are part of the
> 'internationalistaion' task and they are all successfull according
> to me and my locale settings (it_IT@euro).
>
>    The only problem regards the correct translation of the euro
> character, which is an HTML entity &euro; part of the LATIN 9
> charset.
>
>     Indeed, this character, spreadly used not only in the european
> community countries, is not currently imploded/exploded in the
> digging and searching phase, returning a terrifying "&euro;" string
> in the results.
>
>    Any ideas and workarounds? I found an interesting discussion of
> this topic on this URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html
>
> Ciao and thanks,
> -Gabriele

--- htcommon/HtSGMLCodec.cc.orig	2004-05-29 10:18:37.000000000 +1000
+++ htcommon/HtSGMLCodec.cc	2004-05-29 10:49:13.000000000 +1000
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  else
  {
   myTextFromString = "&nbsp;|&iexcl;|&cent;|&pound;|&curren;|&yen;|&brvbar;|&sect;|";
-  myTextFromString << "&uml;|&copy;|&ordf;|&laquo;|&not;|&shy;|&reg;|&macr;|&deg;|";
+  myTextFromString << "&uml;|&copy;|&ordf;|&laquo;|&euro;|&shy;|&reg;|&macr;|&deg;|";
   myTextFromString << "&plusmn;|&sup2;|&sup3;|&acute;|&micro;|&para;|&middot;|&cedil;|";
   myTextFromString << "&sup1;|&ordm;|&raquo;|&frac14;|&frac12;|&frac34;|&iquest;|&Agrave;|";
   myTextFromString << "&Aacute;|&Acirc;|&Atilde;|&Auml;|&Aring;|&AElig;|&Ccedil;|&Egrave;|";