On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
Hah. Thanks for your enthusiasm, but it wouldn't be very effective to go through it manually. Most of the scrambled strings are in languages other than English, and it would take waay too much work.
I do plan on restoring them, but I haven't had the chance to look into it. I can't say when that will be though.
Cheers.
This is really becoming a great hindrance. The comments on the AUR had a lot of very valuable information on them. It's not like it's a twitter feed of inane babble- it's documentation, Q&A, a changelog, brainstorming and external references. This is hurting me much more than if the wiki was completely nuked. I have PKGBUILDs and other build data in version control, but I don't have any of that other stuff in the AUR comments anywhere. Anything you could do would be a great help here. I would rather 5% of the comments be corrupted or completely deleted because of encoding issues than have all of them missing for another 2 months. Unfortunately, I have no expertise with encoding issues, otherwise I would have immediately offered help at the time. Let us know if there is anything we can help with, at all (besides "stop bugging me!" :) Thanks, Slash