Re: Default encoding for the GNOME 2.0 .po files
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl>
- Cc: Keld J?rn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>,Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome-db org>,gnome-2-0-list gnome org, gnome-i18n gnome org
- Subject: Re: Default encoding for the GNOME 2.0 .po files
- Date: 09 Oct 2001 17:43:39 -0400
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
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