RE: Translations strings in CVS

[Jeffrey H. <jef...@aj...>]

I was just reviewing the msg catalog translation strings, and I had
some questions.

There seems to be different methods used for encoding the files.
The Spanish msgs use the \u00xx for extended chars, whereas the
German msgs avoid them by using the lower ascii expansion
(&uumlaut; == ue).  Hellenic (el.msg) comes across in something
that I can't view correctly on Windows or Unix (I do have
bitstream cyberbit on Windows, but no specific Greek font).

I know this was somewhat discussed, but it looks like no certain
resolution was imposed.

My thoughts... I think local languages should attempt to truly
localize.  This may work best the way the Spanish msgs are done -
(as well as French) in that \u00xx is used for high bit encodings.
I think the German (and partly the Dutch) messages should use
umlauted chars and the S-sharp where appropriate (or does MS avoid
this as well?).

As for the Hellenic, I just want to check to make sure that got
imported correctly.  The best thing about using \u00xx is that
it can't get garbled in something that doesn't understand high
bit chars.

George - please verify (by checking the file back out of 8.4
CVS and trying it) that this didn't get garbled.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Hobbs                     Tcl Ambassador
ho...@Aj...          Ajuba Solutions (nee Scriptics)