Re: Translations strings in CVS

[Andreas K. <a.k...@we...>]

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> Jeffrey Hobbs wrote:
> > 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.
 
> I already noted this as well, and all I can say is that I fully
> agree with you.
 
> Attached is a small utility that can do the correction. Just try:
>       msgcv el.msg cp1253
>       msgcv ja.msg euc-jp

> and the result is two new files "el.msg.out" and "ja.msg.out"
> using the '\uXXXX' convention. It should be easy to apply
> this to the message files in CVS now. For german, the umlaut-
> correction should be done manually first.

I agree and will do it (Now that I know the umlaut-codes (:- Wiki)).


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	Andreas Kupries <a.k...@we...>
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