Re: [Vimcdoc-translate] help with iconv

[Yi-an H. <yia...@gm...>]

Sure, thanks.

On 3/9/06, hai xie <xx...@ms...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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