Re: copyright notice format

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

sön 2002-12-15 klockan 14.20 skrev Daniel Elstner:
> > > So it could be argued 
> > > that a string like "Copyright (C) YEAR PERSON" usually shouldn't be 
> > > translated at all.
> >
> > No, I don't think so. Some people have names that don't exclusively
> > consist of ASCII chars, so it's essential (e.g. for chinese names) to
> > have the possibility to change the name.
> 
> And what stops you from using UTF-8 (or octal-escaped UTF-8 for that
> matter) in source code?

Gettext requires msgids to be in ASCII. Please see the thread at
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2002-December/msg00064.html.


Christian