Re: Tamil translators please pay attention

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:03:12AM +0800, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> I have just (hopefully) fixed almost all of tamil translations which
> was broken in the same way Noah discovered some days ago in gtk+. In
> the process, I have to remove a few strings from ta.po in gconf-editor,
> gnomemeeting and gimp-freetype, in order to successfully convert the
> encoding of ta.po.
> 
> Please tell me if I break any tamil translation files, so that I can
> revert the change or fix it.

In fact, the tscii encoding, as almost all "quick and dirty 8bit" encodings,
are based on windows-1252, not in iso-8859-1.
A conversion to iso-8859-1 fails, due to some chars being in the
range 0x80-0x9f which doesn't exist in iso-8859-1

so, it will work better with:

cat old.po | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252//IGNORE | iconv -f tscii -t utf-8 > new.po



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