Re: Forced utf-8 conversion???

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:45:50PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> >From "cvs log sv.po" in gedit:
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.65
> date: 2000/12/26 17:28:36;  author: pablo;  state: Exp;  lines: +156 -156
> Added Azeri file
> Converted po and desktop files to UTF-8
> ----------------------------
> 
> What is this? I can understand the need of having to convert the .desktop
> files, since there is a need of a lot of different character sets in
> those, but why on earth forcing the change on .po files? Doesn't it make
> more sense to let the individual translators of the .po files decide when a
> conversion to utf-8 of "their" .po file will take place?
> 
> Right now, I'm suddenly *unable* to update the gedit sv.po file, because
> pablo was so kind to change it to utf-8 for me, and I don't have an utf-8
> editor on my system. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Christian

I second Christian here - desktop files are OK to convert to UTF-8,
but please do not convert the .po files!

Keld