Forum OpenACS Q&A: little problem with nsd8x

I have been running the AOLserver with a symbolic link in /bin to
nsd76 until the day before yesterday as I saw a thread on the
openacs4.0 Design forum that you should rather use nsd8x.

(I couldn't post that link as a link again - it cut everything after
the "?") https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0001Hp&topic_id=12&topic=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design

So I tried nsd8x and got a weird output for special German characters
like "ä, ö", which I didn't get using nsd76. The output
looked like "A&x" or something like that.

The important thing about it is that I was too lazy to write an "&
auml;" for every "ä" in the first place, as I translated the
openacs texts into German.

As it is better to use the html standard than to be lazy I want to
change all the ä,ö,ü etc. in my documents into their html-synonym. Is
there a command in linux similar to "grep" where I can search all the
documents in my tree for those characters and change them all in one
sweep.... This would be very cool.

Thanks

Hello Henry,

we only have 4 characters in the German language that are different. They are ä ö ü ß.

When I change the URLCharset and OutputCharset to ISO-8859-1, will those characters be outputted correctly on even an english browser?

What about the grep command to change certain things in every document... Or wouldn't you recommend doing that, if it is possible at all. There should be a command which scans all the .tcl documents and you have to confirm or skip on a matching pattern.

David, someone has probably written a perl script to do just that.

But, I've done a lot more shell hacking than Perl. I've never needed to traverse a whole directory trees, but here's a really simple bourne shell script to replace "foo" with "bar" and "xx" with "yy", for files in a single directory only. It just dumps the new versions of the files into the tmp/ subdir. You'd run it with: do-files.sh *.tcl or the like.

#!/bin/sh
# do-files.sh

mkdir tmp
for x
  cat $x | sed -e 's%foo%bar%g' | 's%xx%yy%g' > tmp/$x
done

Hm, you could probably cobble together something ugly like:

find /web/mydir -name "*.tcl" -exec my-script.sh {} ;

where my-script.sh is:

#!/bin/sh
# my-script.sh

set dir_tree `dirname $1`
set tmp_tree "/tmp${dir_tree}"

if [ ! -r $tmp_tree ] ; then
  mkdir -p $tmp_tree
fi

cat $x | sed -e 's%foo%bar%g' | 's%xx%yy%g' > $tmp_tree/$x

Of course, I haven't tested that at all.

That's odd, BBoard ate the backslash ('') before the semicolon (';') in my find command, above. Here is is again: find /web/mydir -name "*.tcl" -exec my-script.sh {} ;

\

It's Postgres, actually, which thinks it is C even though it's just an  RDBMS that happens to be written in C.

The PG folks want to be SQL92 compliant but unfortunately there's such  a large user base that the chances of them changing this are about as high as the chances of Oracle deciding that '' isn't the same as NULL.

We should be double-backslashing quoted strings ... hmmm ... I might be able to do that in the driver.

For real grins see what happens if you stick backslash-zero-zero-zero in your post!

I return to my original question about the charset.

My browser still outputs ö etc. when I set the symbolic link in aolserver/bin to nsd8x...

It didn't bother me running nsd76 until today, but now I would like to use tcl8.x for some regular expressions...

I set the following in /home/aolserver/nsd.tcl:

ns_section "ns/parameters"

        ns_param  home        $homedir

        ns_param  debug        false

        ns_param  MailHost    localhost

        ns_param  ServerLog    ${homedir}/log/server.log

        ns_param  LogRoll      on

        ns_param  HackContentType 1

        ns_param  URLCharset      iso-8859-1

        ns_param  OutputCharset  iso-8859-1

        ns_param  HttpOpenCharset iso-8859-1

ns_section "ns/mimetypes"

        ns_param  default        "*/*"    ;# MIME type for unknown extension

        ns_param  noextension    "*/*"    ;# MIME type for missing extension

        #ns_param  ".xls"        "application/vnd.ms-excel''

        ns_param .html "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

        ns_param .tcl "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

        ns_param .adp "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

Any other suggestions?