[GnomeMeeting-list] Re: 0.93 String Freeze

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > > Translations should be in UTF-8 format but the po files of the following
> > > locales currently aren't:
> > > da, el, gl, it, ja, no, pt_BR, tr
> >
> > And the locales below are still not using UTF-8. I'm also cc:-ing those authors directly now:
> > da, el, it, ja, no, pt_BR, tr
>
> Why do they need to be in utf8?

I think we'd like gnomemeeting to work on systems with older glibc's and
non-glibc systems too. These systems usually cannot do character set
recoding on the fly and hence the po files have to be in the character set
we specify, which is UTF-8. I thought this had been explained umpteen
times on gnome-i18n gnome org 


> utf8 is a pain in the a**, at least to me..

What's the problem? Please be more specific. I've had no trouble ever when
using iconv or msgconv.


Cheers,
Christian