What I’d really like to understand right now is not absolute Truth, oh thank you so very much, or any inner details of my Self.*
What I’d really like to understand is how to get RSS coding to work on French (and Spanish and Norwegian) accents.
Grrr.
Take for example, the lovely word “été”, which means “summer” in French. It looks a lot less lovely in 99% of RSS encodings.
ISO Latin-1 entities: été
HTML 4.0 entities: été
Unicode: 0x00E9t0x00E9 (even HTML can’t read that one.)
I hope I’ll have figured it out by the time summer comes, or (in bad French) Je espère que je puisse le faire avant l’été.
*
“Il faut se connaître soi-même: quand cela ne servirait pas à trouver le vrai, cela au moins sert à régler sa vie, et il n’y est rien de plus juste.”*
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662)
Roughly: “You need to understand yourself–not as a guide to absolute Truth, but in order to manage your life, a more useful goal.”
BTW, I acquired a lifetime supply of inaccurate French in college, where I used to sit gazing at the cute French professor through the haze of everybody’s cigarette smoke, pitying his tortured soul and wishing he would fall in love with me and write poems about us. Of course, I was virtuously trying to think all these things in French.
2 responses so far ↓
1 jr // Jan 14, 2004 at 7:54 pm
You are probably out of luck. The semantic web is an english only endeavor. Well it seems like it to me anyway.
2 Stu Savory // Jan 17, 2004 at 10:24 pm
awa’ the noo! Ah thocht ah’ll blogh en Scots o’ the
Burns Nicht (Sunday 25th January)
Stuart