Re: non-utf8 po files breaking the build

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

sön 2002-11-24 klockan 21.12 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > > ok here is the final version.
> > > 
> > > for F in `grep -l 'charset=[^U]' *.po` ; do msgconv -t UTF-8 $F -o $F.utf && mv $F.utf $F; done
> > > 
> > > Files differing only by their timestamp dont get committed anyway.
> > > msgconv takes care of changing charset=utf-8 to charset=UTF-8.
> > 
> > I think this would be mostly ok, but perhaps inverse matching on a full
> > "charset=UTF-8" would be more failsafe than just inverse matching on an
> > initial U in the charset.
> 
> I don't think you should do it, it would create some burdens for 
> translators that are unnecesary.

Can you explain this in more detail? What specific burdens, and why do
you think they are unnecessary? Vague comments without rationales don't
help.


Christian