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| | | (...) Sounds mostly good. Catch my exceptions down below. (...) Or some other tool; but I agree, a well-defined subset of HTML can and should be used. (...) (Please keep in mind Jacob, that these are nits I'm picking. :-) "Newsgroups" would be more (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Todd Lehman
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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; (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Todd Lehman
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Todd Lehman
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) it sounds like a sneeze to me... "Ecu!" "Bless you" "Thanks" Steve (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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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, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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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) (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | Sproaticus: (...) Yes, but it is not equally clear. Please forget that I mentioned it. (...) No (but it would mean that it should be reprocessed). Imagine this: "translating.da": Content-Language: da Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-04-28 (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Oh waitaminute. I think I see where the confusion is. I'm not suggesting that the header text from the included file be inserted into the including file. What I mean to say is that during processing of the files, when the including file (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | | | | | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | Jeremy: (...) I didn't think so. What I tried to explain was how the processing tools would see the file _after_ the "Include" header had been processed. (...) ~~~...~~~ This is the critical part. I hadn't noticed it earlier. (...) Yes. Play well, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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