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

[Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla ditec um es>]

Hi, Carlos:

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?

	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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