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Re: Encoding for French?

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat dot com>
Cc: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat dot com>, Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:30:48 +0100
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Encoding for French?
References: <20020117084547.A24480@e-smith.com> <fromdyork@e-smith.com><20020117090854.H18912@redhat.com> <20020117142545.G31314@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:25:45PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:08:54AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >   Usually you will need Iso Latin 1, but people start to switch to
> > Iso Latin 15 to get the Euro symbol support. Make sure you have
> >     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> 
> (Of course, in DocBook the euro symbol should be obtained via
> '&euro;'.)

Sure, but I still have to see an ISO-8859-1 character commonly used in
french documents that was suppressed in ISO-8859-15.  For new
documents, ISO-8859-15 is probably the best move.

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Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
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References:
- Encoding for French?
  - From: Dan York
- Re: Encoding for French?
  - From: Daniel Veillard
- Re: Encoding for French?
  - From: Tim Waugh

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