Re: pybliographer po files not in UTF-8

[Åsmund Skjæveland <asmund skjaveland bio uio no>]

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