Re: po files and charset field

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:27:52AM +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Should they be made all utf-8 (I can take the task to convert all those
> > files if needed),
> 
> I'd say yes.  But it's arguable whether author have to write them
> directly with an UTF-8 editor or whether is better to build the final
> .desktop etc. files on the fly from other encoded input files (XML
> prefered).

I would prefer these desktop files to be marked with a charset
label. I have seen too may errors from people thinking
it was an 8859-1 file when it actually was an utf-8 file.

> > and for which release of Gnome should it be mandatory that they will
> > be all in utf-8 (with conversion to the real charset asked by the user
> > trough LC_CTYPE if needed).
> 
> 2.0?  For systems lacking glibc 2.2 it might be necessary to provide a
> configuration option to install encoded files with one of the
> traditional encodings (of course, them will have to accept other
> restrictions).

It really should not be mandatory.

Kind regards
keld