Re: [sr #110501] Plese convert all po/*.po fiels to UTF-8

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Jun 2021 10:03:19 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.m4.bugs
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> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 05:40:38AM -0400, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
>> URL:
>>   <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110501>
>>
>>                  Summary: Plese convert all po/*.po fiels to UTF-8
>>                  Project: GNU M4
> 
>> Currently most of the systems are using UTF-8 based locale settings.
>> Whhen .po file is in non UTF-8 encoding it causes that generated .mo file is
>> in teh esame encoding. This is causing that when actually .mo file is used
>> (g)glibc must on the fly convert it to UTF-8.

Is performance when printing out messages a concern?  I don't think
it is a problem.  I would just let gettext do its magic when needed.

Anyway, at the TP I cannot just change the encoding of a file -- it is
the prerogative of the translators to decide what encoding they want
to use.  Of the Danish team I know that they prefer to hold on to the
ISO-8859-1 encoding.

But... to improve things I have relinked the latest/m4/*.po files
at the TP, from the last translator-submitted PO file (many of which
are almost twenty years old) to the 1.4.18d PO files that I merged
together from three different PO files (m4, gnulib, and glibc).
Apart from Danish, Galician, and Indonesian, they are now all in
UTF-8.  And they now contain many more translated strings (those
imported from gnulib and glibc).

Benno

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