Re: [poedit-users] Character encoding issue

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:29 +0100, Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
> Note that the solution was to open and save it in poedit on another 
> operating system (Ubuntu), as opposed to the one I was using (Mandriva). 

Doubtful. You did something (as usual, unspecified) that did something
(unspecified) to the files. By coincidence, you did that on another
Linux distribution (which is not "different operating system" by any
stretch of imagination, BTW) and you interpret this correlation as
causation. 

> To me it seems to be an issue with how poedit interacts with encoding on 
> different operating system, but as I don't have the insight I can only 
> speculate..

The issue is precisely that -- lack of insight into encodings, Unicode
and text handling in computers. Now that's perfectly fine, this is not
required knowledge for a *translator*. Poedit lets you just save the
file and be done with it if you don't understand encodings.

If, on the other hand, you are a programmer who uses or further
processes .po files obtained from translators (be they written in Poedit
or not), then having a firm grasp of these issues is a basic competency
requirement.

FWIW, none of the posts on this topic ever showed any evidence of actual
problem with the .po files Poedit creates (such as a Poedit-caused
mismatch between the encoding claimed in file's headers and the one
really used -- now that would be a serious bug).

Regards,
Vaclav

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