Re: [Gaim-i18n] [Fwd: Re: [Intltool] UTF-8 Conversion Warnings]

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:15:45PM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I'm perfectly okay with ignoring the warnings, but is there any reason
> > we couldn't just convert the files? I'd rather not do it myself (because
> > I don't want to break something for the translators), but have the
> > respective translators do it when they next submit an update.
> 
> There is no reason that translators should not submit pofiles in the
> character set they are most comfortable with.  The fact that intltool
> is crying about it should be considered a bug.
> 
> Ethan

I strongly agree with Ethan here.  No reason why they should have to
learn UTF-8 when we can automatically convert the encoding at compile
time.

luke