Re: Tamil translators please pay attention

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:49:37AM +0800, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> On 2003-06-05(Thu) 00:05:20 +0200, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Aha, so I understand why some of them failed. I mistakenly thought that
> they were originally in latin1 encoding. Thanks pablo, now they
> are converted correctly, no need to add //IGNORE at all.

The //IGNORE is just for safety, as cp1252 itself doesnt have all chars
in that range defined, but some encodings may fill them (I saw a ta.po once
that needed //IGNORE ).
 

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