Re: [poedit-users] [Newbie] Chinese Charset Info

Olivier,

That's fantastic, thanks for your help.

We were just looking at the catalog settings of the zh-CN.po file for 
PoEdit itself and noticed UTF-8 as the preferred charset there too which 
was helpful.

Regards,

Peter

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Olivier Sannier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Peter George wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We working over on another Sourceforge project called MailManager  
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailmanager/)  and we are beginning 
>> to translate our product from English to Traditional Chinese.
>>
>> What we are not sure of are the correct details for some of the 
>> catalog settings, specifically these ones.
>>
>> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
>> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15\n"
>> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
>> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n"
>> .
>> .
>> "Preferred-Encodings: utf-8 latin1\n"
>>
>> Chinese doesn't seem to have an ISO-8859 charset is that right?
>>
>> If someone could help us get started with advice on the catalog 
>> settings, we can do the rest!
>>
>> Our il8n page is at 
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailmanager/mailmanager/i18n/ BTW.
>>
>> Hope you can help!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter 
>
>
>
> As indicated in other pages that I cannot remember the URL of, the 
> most recommended enconding is UTF-8. ISO-8859-1 is for "western 
> languages" and does not contain the Chinese (and other Asian) characters.
> Hence, convert all your catalogs to UTF-8 (which should be trivial), 
> and start playing around with Chinese.
> Plus by having UTF-8, you can be sure to represent most, if not all, 
> languages on Earth and beyond.
>
> Hope that helps
> Cheers
> Olivier
>
>
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