Re: Two questions

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:

> tis 2002-01-22 klockan 19.16 skrev Martin Norbäck:
> > > You MUST use UTF-8 for all .po files before GNOME 2.0 release if you
> > > want all Linux/BSD/* users that are not using glibc >= 2.2 could use
> > > GNOME 2.0
> > 
> > Requiring all po files to be in UTF-8 has the extra advantage that you
> > can have strings in your applications be in UTF-8.
> > 
> > This means, no more tricks with comments to translators to ensure that
> > Martin Norback gets translated to Martin Norbäck.
> 
> I just found out that Emacs 21 has at least somewhat decent support for
> UTF-8 (at least when it comes to latin characters), and vim 6 also has
> support, so it is likely that the Swedish team will be converting all
> GNOME2 translations to UTF-8 shortly, in any case.

Emacs 20 can be easily extended to support UTF-8 as well. For me it was
just a matter of typing 'apt-get install mule-ucs'.


Salut, Sven