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

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog deaddog org>]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:30:13AM +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

bind_textdomain_codeset is still vital. Gnect from gnome-games 1.90.2
tarball lacks this call, and localized strings are not displayed
as a result, even when the po file is UTF-8 encoded.
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