Re: Forced utf-8 conversion???

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Well, I added a new po file; then did a routine checking of po syntax
> (msgfmt -c -v) and found that a lot of po files had syntax erros (a lot
> of % formatter errors, some non matching \n, and incomplete headers).
> So I fixed that, and at the time of commiting it I thought why not converting
> them to UTF-8 as that had to be done anyway.

Isn't asking the maintainers of the files first nicer, regardless of the 
problem?


>>> The situation is
>>> 
>>>   modules using GTK+2 should be using UTF-8 .po files and .desktop files,
>> 
>> However, I seriously doubt that gedit-HEAD is using GTK 2...
> 
> Well, I thought the gedit-HEAD was supposed to prepare for Gtk+ 2 (while
> gedit stable is for current Gtk+ version).

I don't know about that. However, Gtk+ 2 seems to me far away, so I 
don't think it is a problem yet.


>> Yes, to me, this seems to be the situation. Pablo, I'd really like to 
>> have the utf-8 change on sv.po in gedit-HEAD reverted, unless there was 
>> a really food reason to do the change. If there was, I'd like to hear 
>> about it.
> 
> I sincerely thought as there was a distinct HEAD and stable branch they
> were for Gtk+ 2 and current Gtk+; if I was wrong I apologize, and of course
> I can revert the conversion of the po files.

Yes, please do that, at least for sv.po. When the "Big Switch to UTF-8" 
has to take place, we can manage that ourselves for sv.po. In the 
meantime, I'd like to be able to update the file.


Christian