Re: pybliographer po files not in UTF-8

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld keldix com>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:09:41PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:05:57PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:05:12PM +0200, Ask Hjorth Larsen wrote:
> > > 2010/8/30 Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld keldix com>:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:11:28PM +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> > > >> Dear tr, da, ru, and ja Coordinators/translators,
> > > >>
> > > >> Please, note that your po files in pybliographer are not UTF-8 encoded!
> > > >>
> > > >> NOTICE: po/tr.po is not in UTF-8
> > > >> NOTICE: po/da.po is not in UTF-8
> > > >> NOTICE: po/ru.po is not in UTF-8
> > > >> NOTICE: po/ja.po is not in UTF-8
> > > >
> > > > That is probably because there are better encodings for
> > > > these languages than UTF-8.
> > > >
> > > > best regards
> > > > keld
> > > 
> > > Better in which way?
> > 
> > Less error phrone and conformant to international standards.
> 
> I still don't get it, how an encoding can be less error prone than
> another?

because eg for iso-8859-1 you cannot accidently type in
Cyrillic or other unwanted character. It has the characters you
normally want for the specific language, eg. Danish.

best regards
keld