Re: Default encoding for the GNOME 2.0 .po files

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:40:02PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> Hi, I want to get an official answer from the GNOME 2.0 Release Team
> about the encoding we (the translators) should use at .po files for
> GNOME 2.0 that we upload into cvs.gnome.org.
> 
> I think that we should use utf8 but I want an official confirmation, if
> it's possible, about this question.

I would appreciate if this could still be the chouce of the
submitter of the .po file. I think there is no technical reason
to use utf-8, as gettext automatically can convert any charset
into utf-8.

Kind regards
Keld