Re: pybliographer po files not in UTF-8



Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
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.

Ironically, Danish is listed on Wikipedia as one of the languages not completely covered:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1

And significant bits of typography are missing as well from latin-1, for example the quote marks “ ”, the ellipsis …, and em- and en-dashes (– and —).

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Åsmund Skjæveland


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