Re: po files and charset field

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Since version 2.2 of glibc it seems that automatic on-the-fly charset
> conversion is possible, eg you cna have a po (well a mo :) ) file translated
> using koi8-r but tell LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8 or LC_ALL=ru_RU.CP1251, and
> it will convert it and it will work automagically.

Of course, this won't work on non-Linux platforms, which means we'll need
to convert the Gnome 2.0 .po files to UTF-8 anyway. :)

> PS: What would be the path for strings not in po nor in sgml nor in xml;
> namely the ones in *.desktop and *.directory with no charset information
> at all ?
> Should they be made all utf-8 (I can take the task to convert all those
> files if needed), and for which release of Gnome should it be mandatory
> that they will be all in utf-8 (with conversion to the real charset asked
> by the user trough LC_CTYPE if needed).

These should be converted to UTF-8 for Gnome 2.0, (ie at present in
gnome-libs HEAD)

But the .desktop-style files suck and need integrating with the .po files
somehow.

-- 
Robert Brady
robert@suse.co.uk