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Thanks (or Danke! ) Volker for some notes about Lo-Fi theme.

Lots of things have to be done before 2003 comes, so I'm afraid I cannot take my time even in my holidays. I would like to make Lo-Fi for phoenix as well, But perhaps it's impossible in this year, at least.

Theme 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2

Watch out 1.0.x theme authors! You need to add some CSS for Mozilla 1.0.2. Without them, you cannot re-launch Mail/News, and in my case, Moz stays in background when I quit Moz after the failure of Mail/News re-launch. Solution is easy. Just add CSSs mentioned below in /messenger/.

• messageKeywords.css
• folderPaneExtras.css
• threadPaneExtras.css

How to use UTF-8 with Movable Type

Here's what I did to display UTF-8 with Movable Type.

1. mf.cfg : Set PublishCharset to UTF-8.
2. mf.cfg : Set NoHTMLEntities to 1 (remove comment #)
3. lib/MT/default-templates.pl : Replace all the "iso-8859-1" entities to "utf-8." You should do this before you edit templetes because its charset will be applied to templetes after you rebuild.
4. extlib/CGI.pm : Replace "ISO-8859-1" entity of line 376 to "UTF-8". There are several "ISO-8859-1" entities in it, but I just did for that one line, which is below commented "safe ISO-8859-1 something".

Below the additional modification

• Modify font family/font size in styles.css. Probably you need to do this if you use CJK environment for readability.

That's it! I hope Movable Type use UTF-8 for its default charsert someday.

FYI: Currently, seems Blogger doesn't support UTF-8, but you can use non-latin languages to modify its templete file, just replace "ISO-8859-1" entity in its templete to charset you use. e.g. "SHIFT-JIS" for Japanese.

hi, there

This is my first post using Movable Type. Is blog really worth it?