Re: UTF8 encoding for all .po files



El mié, 24-04-2002 a las 15:34, Keld Jørn Simonsen escribió:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:13:51PM +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > Hi I'm thinking on recode all GNOME2's .po files into UTF8 before the
> > release. Some teams are not working on translations and then those
> > translations could cause problems on old systems (as old as a Debian
> > Potato or RedHat 6.2).
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Could I reencode all those files and commit them to cvs.gnome.org?
> 
> I think it would create some problems. I have experienced
> quite a lot of problems with utf-8 files, because they
> are not adhered to. That is, many make modifications
> to utf-8 files in another charset, eg iso-8859-1.
> And then one has to remedy these errors. I have lost
> quite some hours on that account. 
> 
> It has been discussed before and the conclusion
> was also then to not do it.
> 


But we need it as UTF8 at release time...

We can add a script at cvs.gnome.org to check for a valid .po file, if
the file is not well enconded the commit can fail.

Cheers.

> Best regards
> keld
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
mailto:carlos@gnome-db.org
mailto:carlos.perello@hispalinux.es
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Valencia - Spain

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