Hi all, Short version: anybody unhappy if we *require* PO files to be encoded as UTF-8? For almost everybody, this means no change at all. For "es" and "es_AR", I will have to re-encode the current files (they are ISO-8859-1) to UTF-8 and, in future, you will need to edit them as UTF-8. I would like to make sure I'm not going to make things impossible for anybody by asking for this.
Longer version (with explanation): Working my way through thinking about a bunch of i18n tickets and problems. One popular request is to allow non-ASCII msgid strings (the original, untranslated strings). I'd always believed the xgettext man page that said this wasn't possible for Python. Turns out that the docs are wrong and it is possible. So we have a nice patch in #4734 that works well and I'm happy with it. The only catch is that we now have to agree on an encoding for PO files because xgettext is going to be potentially putting non-ASCII in there, which means an encoding is required. Typically (on most Open Source projects I've worked on in the past, including big ones like GNOME), UTF-8 has been the right choice. This isn't a big deal for core code, although it might be useful in localflavors at some stage, but it will help make the documentation easier. Note that if we can't agree, you guys don't get to use non-ASCII msgid strings. Aside from "es" and "es_AR", the only other non-UTF-8 file is djangojs.po in "fr", but that hasn't been updated for a while and than main (django.po) "fr" file is in UTF-8, so I figure it's not an issue there. Regards, Malcolm -- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django I18N" group. To post to this group, send email to Django-I18N@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Django-I18N?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
