Re: UTF-8 in GNOME2 po files

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

le lun 28-01-2002 à 12:59, Dick Porter a écrit :
> If you had actually read what I wrote, rather than just jumped to
> conclusions, you would have seen that I proposed a solution that works
> for _everyone_ while not requiring a gratuitous upgrade for people that
> dont care about charset support, and still allowing translators to pick
> the best charset that works for them.

Errm, I must admit I had an epidermic reaction when I read your mail. I
shouldn't have posted this, sorry. Still I fail to see how requiring a
glibc upgrade for rh6.2 (or debian potato) non-english users works for
everyone.

> As it happens, we can support both schemes simultaneously for the best of
> all worlds: have translators use UTF8 if thats convenient for them (and
> their language) and have the code check for support for automatic charset
> conversions.

And what if the check fails ? "You can't use Gnome2 on that system,
please upgrade" ?

	Xav