[Bug 290494] Re: Localised Ubuntu start pages (8.10) have corrupted UTF-8 text

[Simos Xenitellis]

** Description changed:

+ The generator scripts for the Ubuntu 8.10 start page corrupt the text, if that text uses non-latin characters.
+ To see the page for your language, visit
+ http://start.ubuntu.com/8.10/index.html.LL
+ where LL is the language code (for example, 'el', 'ru' and so on).
+ 
+ Although the PO files that the translators produced have the UTF-8 encoding, the scripts that create the HTML pages mistakenly assume that the source encoding is not UTF-8 (but rather iso-8859-1).
+ This corrupts the text of the pages.
+ 
+ The solution is to find where in the scripts the text gets corrupted. As
+ soon as the problem is fixed, the Start pages will appear properly when
+ you visit the page again.
+ 
+ Old description -----------
+ 
  Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs
  
  The submitted Catalan translation of the browser start page correctly
  spelled the title of the start page in UTF-8 format [1]:
  
  "Pàgina inicial de l'Ubuntu"
  
  However, the released start page did some kind of conversion to the "à"
  character, which has been converted to some unreadable character and
  thus is not being displayed correctly (see attached screenshot).
  
  Note: I am reporting this against ubuntu-docs because the browser start
  page translation used to be here. With the last-minute changes to the
  browser start page I do not know where it resides anymore. Please
  reassign if necessary.
  
  [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  translators/2008-October/001837.html

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Localised Ubuntu start pages (8.10) have corrupted UTF-8 text
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290494
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