Re: Updates to Italian language

>>>>>>> Oh my, I see you have also changed it to UTF-8.  This is
>>>>>>> lovely! Thank you.  I will update the SquirrelMail core to
>>>>>>> match.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Part of the problem here is that all the plugin translations
>>>>>> for Italian are still in ISO-8859.  They need to match the main
>>>>>> SquirrelMail translation.  Here is the list of translated
>>>>>> plugins:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> abook_import_export.po calendar.po html_mail.po newuser_wiz.po
>>>>>> vacation_local.po archive_mail.po compatibility.po multilogin.po
>>>>>
>>>>> For the list's benefit, Andrea has since sent an offlist tarball
>>>>> of all these files changed to UTF (Andrea, I don't need the .mo
>>>>> files, thanks) and completed 100% of the main SquirrelMail
>>>>> translations. Nice work!  However, can you please re-check the
>>>>> encoding of the files for compatibility, html_mail, multilogin and
>>>>> newuser_wiz?  They look to be US-ASCII, not UTF-8.
>>>>
>>>> Now the files shoud be fine.
>>>
>>> Indeed they are!  Thank you so much!  But one more thing - oops!  I
>>> was about to commit these and I noticed (my mistake) that there are a
>>> series of translations in a "plugins" subdirectory too.
>>>
>>> abook_group.po address_add.po amavisnewsql.po avelsieve.po bayesspam.po
>>> change_ldappass.po gpg.po quota_usage.po twc_weather.po view_as_html.po
>>>
>>> Do you mind changing those, too?
>>>
>>> Thanks VERY MUCH.
>>
>> Uh-oh.  :-)  I found more:
>>
>> http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/trunk/local
>> es/help/it_IT/
>
> In addition, I am seeing an unusual character at the beginning of all
> files, which corrupts them.
>
> In vi, it shows as <feff>.  Looking at the file in a hex editor, the
> first few characters look like any other file, (ff fe 00 20 00 23, etc).
> I
> don't have time to dig more, but it's probably an issue in your
> environment and the application you use to save or zip up (maybe try tar
> instead) the files.  Please see if you can have a look.  The translations
> are unfortunately not usable as is.

Are you just converting the existing Italian translations to UTF-8 or are
you also reviewing the actual translations, i.e. "msgstr"? If the former I
can do that with a script and commit it (won't take long). You only have
to do manual labour it you're actually re-checking the translations.

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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