[vlc-devel] [PATCH] xgettext: assume input files are utf-8

[Rafaël Carré]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:09:26 +0100
Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> 
> On Mon,  1 Nov 2010 02:27:47 +0100, Rafaël Carré
> <rafael.carre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ncurses interface now has translatable strings using unicode
> > characters
> 
> Hmm, is this even allowed? I mean, is this meant to support non-ASCII
> characters, or just non-ASCII encoding of text that contains only
> ASCII characters?

non-ASCII characters

> In my understanding the default "C" / "POSIX" locale uses ASCII. If
> you want to have non-ASCII characters in English, you should
> "translate" them in po/en*.po. I could be wrong.

ncurses intf can't display non ascii chars with C/POSIX locale, so it
might make sense.

Also i have a vague feeling we already discussed that some time ago

I think I'll revert the help changes and add the fancy stuff in the
translations

-- 
Rafaël Carré