Re: We need a solution about .po files && UTF-8

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:30:13AM +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote:
> > El dom, 28-04-2002 a las 01:13, Havoc Pennington escribi?:
> > > 
> > > Would this mean that when compiling from CVS, translations would be broken?
> > 
> > Good point. With the option that we were thinking on, yes. Translatios
> > would be broken if you don't do the make dist first, so we need to
> > update the solution or find another option.
> 
> That would seem to make the choice fairly clear.
>     po files should be in utf8.
> 
> Given the choice between requiring developers to have ultra-modern
> libc, and translators using a restricted subset of tools the later
> seems less restrictive.  The former means that some platforms will
> not be able to run dists (do all the *bsds support this ?)
> 
> Does this mean
>         bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> would no longer be required ?

It's still required because otherwise recent gettext()
and GNU libc will translate the translations back from
UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale.

Regards,
                                        Owen