Lev, When one of our propositions is substantiated, the truth will be known. Since I do not have to invest in the experiment, I am content to wait. /s/ Bill
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From: Lev Walkin [mailto:
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:44 AM
To: Bill McKeeman
Cc: Andrey Shnayder; Richard Carlsson;
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Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Documentation creation in Russian
Bill McKeeman wrote:
>
>
> A word about utf8 support. Python supports utf8 and ascii as separate
> types. I think this was a good decision. If Erlang replaces ascii with
> utf8, it will slow down a lot of things that are currently fast. /w/
On the contrary, it is going to make faster many things that are
acurrently slow.
Since our contradictory propositions are equally unsubstantiated,
the mathematical expectation is that the utf-8 solution is going to be
just as fast as the present state of things.
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:51 AM
> *To:* Richard Carlsson
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> *Subject:* Re: [erlang-questions] Documentation creation in Russian
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> Thank you for your reply, Richard!
> I have created small test module with edoc comments in russian. I have
> attached it to the message.
>
> 2008/10/28, Richard Carlsson <
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> Andrey Shnayder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to generate the documentation on my erlang modules in russian. I
> > try to use edoc and docbuilder (they use the same functions however),
> > but I get the error:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ** exception exit: {badarg,[{io,put_chars,
> > [<0.74.0>,
> > ["<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"latin1\" ?>\n",
> > "<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM \"erlref.dtd\">\n",
> > ........
> > in function io:o_request/2
> > in call from edoc_lib:write_file/4
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > If I write comments in English there are no errors, but I need
> > documentation in russian. Can you help me? Files encoding is utf-8.
>
>
> Hi!
> There is no real support for UTF-8 in Erlang right now (people
> are working on it), so most things assume Latin-1 encoding in
> input and output. If you can send me a minimal test case (a small
> .erl file in UTF-8 that causes the crash) I can try and find a
> workaround for edoc.
>
>
> /Richard
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