Re: [Vimcdoc-translate] help with iconv

[hai x. <xx...@ms...>]

Is it OK I commited two files ?


>From: "Yi-an Huang" <yia...@gm...>
>Reply-To: vim...@li...
>To: vim...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Vimcdoc-translate] help with iconv
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:52:56 -0500
>
>Hi lang2,
>
>For your list of problematic files, there are a few different cases.
>
>Case 1, digraph, arabic, hebrew, mbyte, farsi, usr_24: foreign alphabets
>
>utf-8 are designed to incorporate characters from different languages,
>enc-cn/cp936/gb2312/gb18030 is not, so in a few special cases some
>characters cannot be converted correctly and there are unfortunately no 
>easy
>fix. In my opinion, utf-8 is the better form for translations for at least
>those documents that discuss digraphs and a few foreign languages. Likely,
>people who only read gb encodings will not care about these documents
>anyway, but we never know for sure...
>
>Add "-c" parameter to iconv can work around the problem and iconv would
>succeed by not translating these characters. But it is better for us to
>leave unfixable characters with question marks. So for gb translations some
>manual work is needed, but i would still argue that the utf-8 versions
>should be the primary ones.
>
>Case 2, pi_netrw, pattern: small nuisance
>
>pi_netrw.txt: the name of a French author near the end of the file
>pattern.txt:  "a" with a hat on top of it (actually reverting to the
>previous version fixes the problem. but I wonder whether people reading
>utf-8 may feel the current way is cleaner)
>
>Case 3, various, index: incorrect characters in use and they should be
>fixed.
>
>netbean used to have this problem too with two unusual dashes (-), a recent
>update fixed it, thanks.
>
>I can upload the fixes of case 2 and 3.
>
>Willlis