Re: en_US.po



El jue, 06 de 03 de 2003 a las 14:32, Sven Neumann escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:
> 
> > I believe there is some misunderstanding here. The issue is not AFAIK
> > about using characters not available in latin-1, it's about using
> > characters not available in plain 7-bit ASCII. That's a whole different
> > topic, and support should not be an issue. I can't imagine a reasonably
> > modern setup that doesn't support the latin-1 range of characters in
> > fonts etc.
> 
> I think you misunderstood my point. The suggested en_US.po file can
> not be converted to ISO-8859-1 which means that the messages can not
> be output on a terminal of a GTK+ user who uses an en_US.ISO-8859-1
> locale. This is a rather common setup and some of these messages are
> by default output to the console. In my opinion an en_US translation
> of GTK+ shouldn't use any non-latin1 characters unless there's a
> strong reason to do so. Since the change is merely cosmetic, I don't
> think that such a reason is given here. Same applies to other locales
> such as de_DE, btw.
> 

7bit ASCII != iso-8859-1

for example, áéíóúñ are 8bit ASCII (not 7bit ASCII) but those are inside
iso-8859-1 because the "es" locale uses ISO-8859-1 charset and we have
those characters.

So I don't think you have any problem with those characters.
> 
> Salut, Sven

Cheers.

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