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

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:25 +0100, =D0=94=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B8=D0=BB=D0=BE =D0=
=A8=D0=B5=D0=B3=D0=B0=D0=BD wrote:
> =D0=88=D1=83=D1=87=D0=B5 =D1=83 21:51, Luke Schierer =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=
=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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.

Why not just have an intltool-msgfmt script which checks the encoding,
and if it's not UTF-8, converts it before passing the contents of
the .po to msgfmt?

Richard