Re: en_US.po

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> El jue, 06 de 03 de 2003 a las 09:13, Noah Levitt escribió:
>  
>
> > I've written an en_US.po for gtk+. The main differences from
> > the untranslated strings are curly quotes and hyphens and
> > stuff like that. I figure I'd better get permission before
> > committing since it's a bit unusual.
> >
> > http://www.columbia.edu/~nlevitt/tmp/en_US.po
> >
> > It occurs to me that use of en_US.po might be a way to help
> > avoid breakage during string freeze. (Whether it's a good
> > way could be debatable.)
> >    
>
>
> I think that it's better break the string freeze than add that .po file.
>
> We need to fix it soon or alter so I think we should fix it as soon as
> possible.
>
> Translators, what do you think?
>
> It Is not words additions or modifications, so the translation update
> should be easy.
>  
I think the problem Noah is trying to work around is that gettext 
requires message ids (ie. the "C" locale translations) to be in 7-bit 
ascii: the reasoning being that the message ids should be valid in the 
.po files, no matter what encoding the translator uses (which is not an 
issue for gtk+ catalogs, but is still a limitation of the tools).

He wants to be able to use non-ASCII characters in the english messages.

James.

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