Re: Please replace (C) with © in copyrightnotices

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tor 2002-12-19 klockan 05.31 skrev R.I.P. Deaddog:
> > In many GNOME copyright notice messages the sequence "(C)" is used,
> > something like this:
> > 
> > msgid "Copyright (C) 2002 Foo"
> [....]
> > Please DON'T just copy the (C). Unfortunately, most of the existing
> > GNOME translations seem to be doing this, which is why I'm sending this
> > mail.
> > 
> > Why do this have to be replaced? The reason is that the (C) isn't a
> > legally recognized symbol for copyright information, but the ? is.
> > The reason a (C) is used instead of the proper ? in the msgid is that
> > the msgid has to be in ASCII, and ASCII is one of the few character sets
> > that unfortunately doesn't have this symbol.
> 
> How about other charsets that also don't have copyright symbol?

UTF-8 has this symbol. You are using UTF-8, aren't you?


Christian