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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 05:22, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org> writes:
> 
> > emacs (if you read the gnome-i18n thread you can see that seems like it
> > has some troubles).
> > ...
> 
> Using Emacs from CVS head (plus the settings I posted) does it for quite
> some languages, though.  Emacs 21.2 features limited UTF-8 support.
> 
> BTW, I don't see a problem to ship .gmo files UTF-8 encoded while the
> .po files can stay unchanged.  Converting .gmo files can either happen
> at 'make dist' or at 'make install' time.
> 
yes, indeed, the rule for creating .gmo files from the .po can be
modified to run the conversion to UTF8 at the time the .gmo files are
generated. Thus, translations won't be broken when installing sources
from CVS.

cheers