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

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Mon Nov 1 19:19:56 CET 2010


Le lundi 1 novembre 2010 20:14:33 Rafaël Carré, vous avez écrit :
> 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

This needs to be checked. Lets face it: Translators are not going to add the 
fancy stuff to other languages (than English). So keeping the fancy stuff in 
the source would be cool. I just doubt it really works properly.

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