Re: We need a solution about .po files && UTF-8



El dom, 28-04-2002 a las 00:38, Diego Sevilla Ruiz escribió:
> Hi, Carlos:
> 

Hi

> Option 2 seems to be worse, because many packages can forgot to make the
> change...
> 
> Also, what editors are there that support UTF-8? Can I play with emacs?

Gedit2
gtranslator (but someone told me that it does not work as well as it
should).
kbabel
emacs (if you read the gnome-i18n thread you can see that seems like it
has some troubles).
...


Cheers.

> 
> 	Best regards.
> 	diego
> 
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:33:28AM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> 
> | An introduction for gnome-hackers readers...
> | 
> | 
> | We have a problem with l10n strings for GNOME 2.0. For all systems with
> | glibc < 2.2 the autorecode feature of glibc is not available so all .po
> | files should be encoded as UTF-8. We need mantainers opinion about this
> | problem because it's a critical bug that needs a fix before GNOME 2.0
> | release.
> | 
> | We have several options:
> | 
> | 1.- Store all .po files for GNOME 2.0 at cvs.gnome.org as UTF-8
> | 2.- Recode all .po files as UTF-8 at distribution time.
> | 
> | The "problems" are:
> | 
> | The option number 1 can cause some problems to translator people because
> | the lack of UTF-8 editors to update the UTF-8 files.
> | 
> | The option number 2 forces to use gettext >= 0.11 to all mantainers when
> | they do a make dist and we should add a rule to execute the recode.
> | 
> | Here you have the thread link to get more information about this issue:
> | 
> | http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2002-April/msg00075.html
> | 
> | 
> | Cheers.
> | 
> | -- 
> | Carlos Perelló Marín
> | mailto:carlos gnome-db org
> | mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es
> | http://www.gnome-db.org
> | http://www.Hispalinux.es
> | Valencia - Spain
> 
> 
> 
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