[Fsf-friends] Fwd: Re: success--in viewing maharashtra's electoral rolls in the open source f

[krishnaact]

--- In eGovINDIA@yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote:
In firefox, try this - In menu go to view  -> character encoding ->
Western(iso--8859-1)


Yes, Laxminarayan Kamath's solution is a very convenient solution and
better than mine  -no editing is required at all.

Thanks for the simplest and best solution.

Kussh

Kush wrote:

>Please see the text file at the end of this message which gives the
>reason why the asp page won't work till it is edited by hand or a filter
>plugin used to search for "charset=x-undefined" or similar string and
>replaced with "charset=iso-8859-1".
>
>This is deliberately done to cause a problem with all browsers. Then the
>plugin has been made to work only for IE to get over this simple problem
>which would look exceedingly complex to a layman.
>
>regards,
>kussh
>
>krishnaact wrote:
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>
>>I forwarded your email, and got the response below. Please let him
>>know if it works.
>>
>>Laxminarayan Kamath" <kamathln@g...>  Add to Address BookAdd to
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>>To:	"Principal Support List of FSF-India" <fsf-friends@m...>
>>Subject:	Re: [Fsf-friends] Fwd: success--in viewing maharashtra's
>>electoral rolls in the open source fire
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>>On 9/10/05, krishnaact <krishnaact@y...> wrote:
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>>>--- In eGovINDIA@yahoogroups.com, Kush <kushkaran@f...> wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I am trying to see the results for the electoral rolls from
>>>http://203.199.16.205/msd/ or any other district except "Mumbai city"
>>>.....
>>>      
>>>
>>and the following lines at the beginning of the source page of the
>>
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>>
>>>result need to be added (which only a person with a little knowledge
>>>of html and a text editor would be knowing)
>>>
>>><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
>>>      
>>>
>>charset=iso-8859-1">
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>>    
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>>>Then only the results are seen properly.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>In firefox, try this - In menuy go to view  -> charector encoding ->
>>Western(iso--8859-1)
>>Please tell me if it works.
>>
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>How to see the result correctly in any browser?
>1 go to http://203.199.16.205/
>
>2 click on the district you want to search for --say mumbai suburban
>the page will then become http://203.199.16.205/msd
>
>3 add the following string "/default.asp?action=first" to the location
>ie http://203.199.16.205/msd/default.asp?action=first. Now you will be
>able to see only the top frame which is what is needed.
>
>4 enter the search criteria and click on the search button. a new
>results page is opened.
>
>5 save the results page on your computer and open it for editing in a
>simple text editor such as notepad. Rename the saved file with the
>extension html instead of asp.
>
>6 search and replace the text "charset=x-user-defined" with
>"charset=iso-8859-1". Save the file.
>
>7 double click the saved file to view the page and you will be able to
>see the page in any browser if the surekha font DVBW-TTSurekh has been
>properly installed in the correct location as given in my earlier
messages.
>
>windows/fonts directory in case of windows
>or ~/.fonts directory in case of linux. .fonts is a hidden directory and
>needs to be created if its not already there.
>
>8 if you are not able to see the result properly, finetune the
>configuration of the browser. For firefox one has to do the following
>
>a-- go to edit --preferences (linux)
>or tools-options (in windows)
>
>b--click on fonts and colors under general
>
>c--use the following settings for
>1 fonts for-- western
>2 proportional--serif/sans serif
>3 serif-- dvbw-ttsurekh
>4 sansserif--dvbw-ttsurekh
>
>5 unclick/disable--"use my fonts" option in case it is enabled
>
>leave other settings unchanged. click on ok, ok and this should work.
>
>Thats it.
>
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>
>ABOUT THE CDAC PLUGIN-- what it does--
>1 it just copies the missing font onto the users computer --works only
>for windows operating system. It changes a few parts in the
>configuration file for the browser --this has to be done by hand for the
>other browsers. Change the configuration to make use of the newly
>installed font.
>
>2 it does a simple search for the text "charset=x-user-defined"
> and replaces it with "charset=iso-8859-1"
> before the page is displayed on the browser.
>
>It does this by acting as a filter before the asp/html/php webpage is
>displayed by the browser. Again the plugin works only for Internet
explorer.
>
>But the key question is --why is the result page generated in the wrong
>way with the incorrect meta tag--thus requiring a filter/plugin and
>making it impossible for other browsers to view the page correctly.
>
>This is the herapheri which makes a Microsoft product the defacto king
>in the country and it is patently wrong that certain people in the
>establishment are promoting this. We have 6 crore voters in maharashtra.
>Considering that only a 1000 know how to access this page, still
>enhancing a mindset for these 1000 influential people
>
>Firefox and mozilla browsers are not only stronger/safer/faster and more
>powerful but they are evolving faster because they are open source. This
>way countries like China etc will be far ahead of us. China and Japan
>already are promoting open source in a big way whereas our govt deptts
>are acting as agents by dereliction of duty and unnecessary hurdles and
>misinformation.
>
>I am using ubuntulinux (hoary version) which is such a user friendly and
>windows compatible package that the transition from windows to linux is
>much more pleasant than the transition to other linuxes
>--www.ubuntulinux.org--some retraining is required such as knowing how
>to use the system monitor (substitute task manager/process monitor in
>windows), synaptic tool for downloading packages/software, klipper
>(substitute for clipboard in windows), firestarter (substitute firewall
>such as zone alarm in windows) openoffice (substitute msoffice in
>windows) thunderbird email client(substitute outlook express in windows)
>nautilus file manager (substitute windows file manager)d4x (substitute
>download package like freshdownload or getright or gozilla etc in
>windows for downloading big files or multiple pages) etc
>
>
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