Re: What encoding to use for the translations

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:54:04AM +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Christian Rose <menthos menthos com> writes:
> 
> > For Gnome 2.0 we have have decided upon using UTF-8 for all
> > translations.  So when Gnome 2.0 gets closer, we will have to convert
> > all translations into UTF-8.
> 
> It isn't nice to force all translators to use UTF-8.  If UTF-8 is
> required for GNOME 2.0 you can use 'msgconv' (from gettext cvs) before
> calling 'msgfmt'.

Why cant we use gettext to automatically convert to utf-8 when needed?
The automatic conversion is an integral part of gettext as of today.

Kind regards
Keld