[Fedora-trans-ar] Our beloved qamoose

[Mohamed Eldesoky]

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On Sunday 19 December 2004 5:04 pm, Munzir Taha wrote:
> On Yaum al-Ahad 07 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 2:54 pm, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> > It uses HTML encoding, which is readable regardless of the encoding you
> > choose.
> >
> > If you looked at it in the database it will look like
> > أخى يحيى
>
> Ah! you mean html entities.
>
> > So now, it is not a good idea to store it that way. Normally, it is
> > expected that when the page loads in utf-8, the user wouldn't change the
> > encoding from the browser to cp-1256, or it would become an intentional
> > call for headache :)
>
> Why do you think it's not a good idea storing it that way?

Migration to another CMS ?? Editing by hand ?? Editing by other software.
All of these issues can cause extreme headache.

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Mohamed Eldesoky
Systems Engineer
RedHat Certified Engineer
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