Re: non-utf8 po files breaking the build

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:58:18PM +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> ons, 2002-11-27 kl. 11:41 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:15:48AM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> > > mån 2002-11-25 klockan 00.02 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > > 
> > > The decision to use UTF-8 as the mandatory encoding for all GNOME 2.x po
> > > files has been made. Please accept that.
> > 
> > I really dont understand your rhetorics here. We have decided not to
> > force UTF-8 on our translators a number of times, and then you again and
> > again claim the opposite. Please accept that we live in a world that
> > has multiple charsets, and please do not make it harder for translators
> > to contribute to Gnome.
> > 
> 
> We are not forcing UTF-8 on anyone. The only thing that has been decided
> is that all po files should be in UTF-8 format *in* *CVS* so that we
> have less problems for the people trying to make tarballs once a week
> and also for the people who are trying to keep the tree buildable at all
> times.

Well, we have decided to keep the po files in the CVS in all charsets, two times.
We have never decided to only have it in UTF-8.

Kind regards
keld