Re: UTF8 encoding for all .po files

[teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos@gnome-db.org> writes:

> 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.

Shouldn't that be done anyway? Invalid po files are a big pain....

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
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