Re: UTF8 encoding for all .po files

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

ons, 2002-04-24 kl. 15:34 skrev Keld Jřrn Simonsen:
> 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. 
> 

I was skeptical to begin with too, but after upgrading to emacs-21 which
supports UTF-8 in po-mode I've never looked back. :)

The only time I've had problems when editing files with non-UTF8 aware
editors is while editing actual 8-bit chars, which makes it loose the
encoding.

Cheers
Kjartan