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Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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lugnet.faq
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Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:28:09 GMT
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jsproat@*StopSpammers*geocities.com
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Sproaticus:
> > Also, something like "Original-Language" makes more sense
> > than "Translation".
> so
> Revision: Todd Lehman, 1997-12-24
> Revision: Minx Kelly, 1998-09-21
> Translated-From: en
> Translator: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-02-21
> Content-Language: da
> is an article written by Todd, edited by Minx, and then
> translated from English to Danish by me?
Looks good to me.
> We could also reuse "Revision" for translations.
You mean like,
Revision: Todd Lehman, 19971224, en
Revision: Minx Kelly, 19980921
Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 19990221, da
or some such?
> > BTW, what *is* the format of an ISO date?
> Year (all digits)
> "-"
> Month (two digits)
> "-"
> Day (two digits)
More easily read by humans, probably just as easy to parse. What would a
time-of-day stamp look like?
> > Plus:
> > Include: [applies the headers of the included file]
> Which of the header entries?
Any and all, probably. Included headers could then be overridden by the
includer.
> > > - ASCII + HTML entities are allowed in the headers.
> > At least the ® -style chars. I don't see much need
> > for more HTML in the headers.
> That is what you call HTML entities.
> Todd seems to want Latin-1 + HTML entities. That's fine for me.
Arg. My bad.
Anyway, I prefer typing "®" over "(hold down ALT key)0174(release ALT
key)". The mnemonics are *much* easier to remember. Do you have any
preferred way of escaping hard-to-type characters?
> > My knee-jerk reaction to the ASCII question is to just use
> > the lower 128 (not counting the very lowest 32 of course :-),
> You need 10 and 13 for newlines :-)
Or use your imagination. :-P If we were working for Dilbert's company,
we'd have to work around a lack of "Q"'s also.
> Here's the edited list of header entries:
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> Subject [the question]
> Category [category (and sub-category?) name]
> Content-Language [ISO 639 language code]
> Topic-Level [integer, 0 is beginner/easy/simple]
> Revision [author, ISO date]
> Location [comma-separated list of Lugnet relative
> URI's]
> Translated-From [ISO 639 language code]
> Translator [translator, ISO date]
Thank you for that. Saved me from compiling the list myself. :-)
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
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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) (...) (27 years ago, 27-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, (...) (27 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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