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Let me know if I can help in any way with the DACTA info, especially what is my function. Thanks, Glen Tannenbaum (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
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(...) Larry, Are you still up for giving these form? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general)
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(...) This was my original argument for include. However, Todd already has a mechanism to figure this out on the fly. (...) Not necessarily. There are situations where you don't want to assume association with all parent directories. For example, we (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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(...) Since header order is important, this should work pretty well. (...) Not bad either. Wouldn't changing an included file imply that the including file has also changed? (...) ^^^...^^^ Huh? (...) But then we'd have to run the thing through a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) it sounds like a sneeze to me... "Ecu!" "Bless you" "Thanks" Steve (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Sproaticus: (...) No, like: Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24 Revision: Minx Kelly, 1998-09-21 Translated-From: en -> Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-02-21 <- Content-Language: da (...) Can't remember. I think you append "-" Hours (two digits) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Todd: (...) It depends on the chosen encoding of the document. I would expect most people^H^H^H^H^Hrogrammers to use plain 16 bit Unicode BMP[1]. Since I am too lazy to get my computer to operate with another character encoding (than Latin-1), I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Sproaticus: (...) Not really. (...) Both approaches are ok with me. (...) We need a (secondary) resource that translates the Lugnet relative URI's to (more) meaningful text. Aren't "/market/" and "/" implied when you write "/market/auction/"? (...) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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(...) Awlright... I grabbed a copy of Lynx and tried it out... I'm sold. :-, Let's use it. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) How is the Japanese language represented in HTML? I seem to remember seeing a page a few weeks ago that seemed like it used 2-byte ShiftJIS... I'd be shocked if they used 8-byte HTML entities. Can we imagine any possible uses for characters (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Although rare, double-quote characters (") which appear inside of tags (for example inside of URLs), have to be written as " -- e.g. <IMG SRC="(URL) Double-quote characters (") appearing in normal text (outside of tags) don't have to be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Here's a working sketch of the FAQ data format; the example is wrapped in quasi-XML, to show the file's path. Subject: [the question] Content-Language: [ISO 639 language code] Topic-Level: [integer, 0 is beginner/easy/simple] Revision: [author, ISO (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Looks good to me. (...) You mean like, Revision: Todd Lehman, 19971224, en Revision: Minx Kelly, 19980921 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 19990221, da or some such? (...) More easily read by humans, probably just as easy to parse. What would (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) If we ban HTML _elements_ from the headers, then we don't need to escape '<' and '>'. There has never been a need to escape '"'. If we want to allow numeric character references outside Latin-1 (like '̥') we still have to escape (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Fine. (...) Yes (but the first four _are_ ASCII characters). (...) Me too. And yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Sproaticus: [...] (...) Fine. Location: [comma-separated list of Lugnet relative URI's] (...) What about Translated-From: [ISO 639 language code] Translator: [translator, ISO date] so Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24 Revision: Minx Kelly, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Todd: (...) You're right. I hadn't reached the "one entry, one file" idea when I wrote this. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Sure -- suppose you have a directory full of FAQ items, some of which have pretty much the same headers. e.g. Locations: /x/y/,/x/z/,/x/,/ Content-Language: qw Translated-From: er Topic-Level: 1 Instead of maintaining each of these in every (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Oh man, I'm HOT on "lynx -dump -force_html"!! It doesn't do an absolutely perfect perfect job, but it comes *so* close, and I'll bet it can get even closer by specifying a custom config file on the command line. (...) Agreed -- only &xxx; (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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