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Re: use.id.as.filename may produce invalid filenames
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Gisbert Amm <gia at webde-ag dot de>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:19:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: use.id.as.filename may produce invalid filenames
- References: <74ADFA8C453ED611A71E00508BBBA135D9E790@exchange1.cinetic.de>
Gisbert Amm wrote:
> I want the IDs as similar to the headings as possible (much easier to
> maintain).
> Therefore an umlaut is nothing exotic in such an ID for me in German.
In Czech we have more exotic characters than you have in German, and I
still for many reasons use only English letters in IDs.
> After converting I'll have one file called huh.html and one called h_h.html
> Surely you've meant something like 'hüh' and 'höh' which will both result in
> h_h.html
It matters on a transcription rules applied. But because there is a
possibility for such harm, I don't think it is good idea to add this
feature to standard stylesheets. Moreover it would be pain to create
transcription rules for nearly 50000 characters currently present in
Unicode.
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