Re: Default encoding for the GNOME 2.0 .po files

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl> writes:
> On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 23:21:18, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:
> 
> > I would appreciate if this could still be the chouce of the
> > submitter of the .po file. I think there is no technical reason
> > to use utf-8, as gettext automatically can convert any charset
> > into utf-8.
> 
> Conversion eats more memory. I'd call it a technical reason.

At the same time, I don't think we have good UTF-8 support in text
editors yet, so if someone doesn't want to deal with UTF-8 it's
probably OK in the short term...

Havoc