Re: pybliographer po files not in UTF-8
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny eglug org>
- To: Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de>
- Cc: gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen gmail com>
- Subject: Re: pybliographer po files not in UTF-8
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:52:08 +0200
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:45:36PM +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Less error phrone and conformant to international standards.
> >
> > I still don't get it, how an encoding can be less error prone than
> > another?
>
> UTF-8 (Unicode) works universal for ANY language and charset and as such
> all modern editors can open it without problems. For many other
> encodings they have to guess which to use and as guessing is sometimes
> wrong - that is error prone.
That makes the "other encodings" error prone, not UTF-8, which is not
what he was saying.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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