[GnomeMeeting-list] UTF-8

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > > 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 
>
> Well, we have discussed it, and I think the conclusion was that there
> was no need to require utf-8. At least this was the conclusion on the
> Gnu translation project list.

That must have been it, because I for sure haven't heard any such
conclusion on gnome-i18n gnome org  On the contrary.


> There is no problem for older systems.

I would love to hear the details on why. I'm sure others would love to
hear the reasons too.


> > > 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.
>
> utf-8 is just one more source of errors that it would be nice to be
> without. I have explained this a couple of times, also on this list.

I'm curious about what type of errors you are referring to.


Christian