Re: non-utf8 po files breaking the build

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-11-27 klockan 16.02 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > > 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.

Please re-read this very thread then. I thought we have already made it
pretty clear that we have decided on keeping all GNOME 2.x translations
in UTF-8 in CVS. How more official do you want the decision?

Please remember that things like this don't get decided by popular vote,
and the decisions certainly don't get invalidated by one persons
reluctant protests on having to commit things in UTF-8, no matter how
loud the complaints/rants may be.


Christian