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

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Hi guys,

=D0=88=D1=83=D1=87=D0=B5 =D1=83 21:51, Luke Schierer =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=
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> 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.

You actually can't (or not easily, anyway): intltool is reencoding
only into it's own cache so it can construct properly merged .desktop,
.xml, .schemas, .server and similar files which contain many
languages.  Encoding ends up in the MO file as well, and translation
needs to be re-encoded on every run of the program in that locale.

I've explained this in the bug as well.

Also, you can't serve all the PO files properly via web page (or,
it's harder at least), like the one on http://gaim.sf.net/i18n/, since
you commonly set only a single content-encoding.

Cheers,
Danilo