Re: We need a solution about .po files && UTF-8



 El dom, 28-04-2002 a las 16:25, Owen Taylor escribió:
> 
> Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos@gnome-db.org> writes:
> 
> > An introduction for gnome-hackers readers...
> > 
> > 
> > We have a problem with l10n strings for GNOME 2.0. For all systems with
> > glibc < 2.2 the autorecode feature of glibc is not available so all .po
> > files should be encoded as UTF-8. We need mantainers opinion about this
> > problem because it's a critical bug that needs a fix before GNOME 2.0
> > release.
> > 
> > We have several options:
> > 
> > 1.- Store all .po files for GNOME 2.0 at cvs.gnome.org as UTF-8
> > 2.- Recode all .po files as UTF-8 at distribution time.
> 
> GTK+ will continue to use plan 1. here, as it does currently (and GLib
> will be switched over to do the same whenever I get a bit of time to
> do it.)
> 
> Distributing files that are different than that what is in CVS is
> (in my opionion) a bad idea ... files in a distributed tarball
> should either one of:


It seems that we have an option that solves this issue. cvs contents and
dist tar.gz will have the same .po files, the recode will be only when
you generate the .gmo file and this file is not at cvs.gnome.org so the
problem has gone.

We only need that everyone that wants to install GNOME 2.0 from sources
will need gettext >= 0.11 because as cactus has remember me, we can
modify glib-gettextize to recode directly the .gmo files as UTF8.


Bye

> 
>  - Source files, identical to what the maintainer uses
>  - Files generated from the source files. 
> 
> Plus if tarballs are different from what people are installing
> from CVS, handling bugs and QA-ing what we release is going to
> getharder.
> 
> Yes, it's a little more difficult for translators, but there
> are several decent solutions (use the conversion scripts,
> use a Unicode-capable editor, use a UTF-8 locale with a locale
> friendly editor.)
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
mailto:carlos@gnome-db.org
mailto:carlos.perello@hispalinux.es
http://www.gnome-db.org
http://www.Hispalinux.es
Valencia - Spain

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