Re: GNOME CVS (silent): bug-buddy pablo

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

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> So, we have two different things to consider:
> - use of gettext 0.10.37 or not (advantages: make big5 files readable,
>   makes multibyte encoded files readable; disadvantages: big5 files made
>   for 0.10.37 will fail for old gettext. However as big5 translators want
>   to go for new gettext I think the discussion is somewhat over)
> - inclusion of arbitrary non-ascii chars into text string the sources
>   (so far, I've seen use of iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2 chars, without telling
>   the encoding in either case; but, from a strict philosophic point of vue,
>   if those are accepted, why not euc-jp or koi8-r?)
>
> Those two points are unrelated.
>
> For the first point, I don't think it makes any real problem.

It isn't over yet, since after the discussion and decision to opt for new
gettext behaviour, not much real work is done. I'd guess at least 85% of
translation files have not been touched yet (if not too optimistic). That
can still be a source of confusion for quite some time.


Abel Cheung