On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:15 +0200, Danilo Šegan wrote: > Hi Kurt, Christian, > > Yesterday at 15:04, Christian Rose wrote: > > > On 6/28/06, Kurt Maute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We've got a Spanish translation of the Planner user guide, and it seems > >> to use ISO-8859-15 as its character set rather then UTF-8 (i.e. it needs > >> charset="ISO-8859-15" in its header in order to transform correctly. > >> > >> Is there any rule or guideline against this? > >> ...or maybe more importantly, any rule that we must use UTF-8? > > > > For application translations (regular po files), we do require them to > > be encoded in UTF-8. > > And it would be best if Planner actually switched over to > gnome-doc-utils[1,2] for documentation. It will also provide status > to translators so they can be on top of everything. > > [1]http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigrationHowTo > [2]http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDocUtilsMigration > > > I'm not sure of whether we have any similar formal requirement for > > docs translations, but I think it would not make sense not to have it, > > given the above. > > Lets just agree that from now on, we do! ;)
I absolutely would like all the po files for documentation translation to be in UTF-8. Dealing with non-UTF-8 po files is just too much of a hassle for those of use who are working on magical scripts to do subversive things. As for the generated DocBook files, is it useful to have them in other character encodings? I know that a lot of non-Latin scripts can end up with considerably larger file sizes with UTF-8 than with other encodings dedicated to the script. We're all using fully conforming XML processors (right?), so as long as the character encoding is properly declared in the XML declaration at the top, we shouldn't have any problems. Danilo, should we provide a way for translators to specify the character encoding of the XML files that xml2po creates? (Or maybe I should just make Yelp support compressed DocBook.) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
