[Yum-devel] Re: [yum-git] yum/i18n.py
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 14:45:19 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 15:39 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 04:59 -0500, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> >> Make the _() translation wrapper make sure that the translated string is Unicode, to solve problem with ISO-8859-1 translation files
> >
> > It's probably easier to just make sure the po/mo files have UTF-8
> > instead. See msgconv(1)
>
> Some languages don't work well with UTF-8 po files (fx. danish and
> norvegian they have some special 'åæø' chars there looks wrong if the po
> file is not in iso-8859-1 )
Ermmm, no. ISO-8859-1 is a subset of UTF-8. And I can *guarantee* that
those languages are perfectly fine with UTF-8 po files... we've been
mandating UTF-8 po files for many years now with anaconda and other
elvis/fedora hosted things
Jeremy
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