Re: [eGroupWare-translation] new Czech translation for eGW

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MichalS escribió:
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> At the end of February I have started to work from scratch on the new Czech
> translation, because the former one was far from complete. I based my
> translation on English files, but I was not sure in many cases so I also
> used Slovak and Spanish files a lot. Since I did the whole work from
> beginning I also decided to change the encoding. Why? Because IMHO UTF-8 is
> the future and everything else is the past. Czechs used ISO-8859-2 mainly on
> UNIX based systems and CP1250 on Windows systems. So we didn't have unified
> encoding anyway. I believe, that somebody who needs other encoding can
> convert those language files easily.


I've just replied privately to a Michal's private mail, and I'd like to
reproduce it here (ccing Ralf):


"I got a reply from Ralf about this and he warned about possible data
corruption. Also, there are users that seem to have strong reasons to
not switch the charset (beyond my knowledge). With this in mind, I don't
feel like changing the charset at this very moment, so please try to
provide a translation using iso (remember to change the "charset" entity
in phpgwapi/setup/phpgw_cs.lang).


And please remember: at least since egw 1.2, the fact that your language
files are iso doesn't mean you can't use utf-8. That's only the encoding
used in the files themselves and (I think) the default suggestion for
your language. Spanish default for lang files is iso-8859-1, but I try
to use utf-8 in the installation."


The possible data corruption comes mostly (all?) because a bug in old
1.0 installations. Surely in the next future release after 1.4 this can
be forced to be changed to utf-8, maybe avoiding any kind of
responsability for still keeping old and unmaintained 1.0.x releases.
This means please keep using your current charset for contributing, and
if you want, and find that you miss some functionality, then test utf-8
and report about it (if it's a bug).


What I consider the most important of all is that if I take this
decision alone this can affect the whole application behaviour and data,
and this is beyond my role, unless the core developers agree with it.


Regards.

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