Re: [SM-I18N] Encode ro_RO in UTF-8

[Fredrik J. <jer...@sq...>]

>>> I strongly advocate changing the encoding of the ro_RO locale to
>>> UTF-8. There are many romanian people who receive german or french
>>> texts and their reply is ofter corrupt because some characters cannot
>>> be encoded in the traditional romanian encoding (ISO8859-2). If there
>>> is any way I can help, please tell me.
>>>
>>> Please CC me, as I am not on the list.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the Romanian translations were made by Eugen
>> Hoanca,
>> Marius Onica, Mircea Ilie, and Veaceslav Chicu. If I don't see any
>> objections from them within a fortnight I'll change Romanian to UTF-8.
>> While I'm at it, I'll change the status of the Romanian translators
>> that doesn't respond to this mail to "retired".
>>
>> As you can see at
>> <http://l10n-stats.squirrelmail.org/HEAD/ro_RO/index.php> and
>> <http://l10n-stats.squirrelmail.org/HEAD/essential.php>, Romanian is
>> slowly falling under the 50 % limit, so any volunteers are welcome.
>
> I got the message. :) I have little time, but I might be able to
> translate a few hundred messages / week. I can start immediately after you
> do the UTF-8 conversion.

I'll reply to this list when this is done. I'm still waiting for replies.

> Would you please be so kind and tell me how translations are done in
> SquirrelMail? svn import, poEdit, msgfmt, svn commit?

Yes, except "svn commit" won't work since we don't have a public
repository. Just mail the translation to this list and I'll commit it.
There is more documentation about translations at
<http://squirrelmail.org/docs/translator/translator.html>.

Sincerely,
Fredrik