Proposal: Convert .mo files to UTF-8

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Mar 1 21:30:10 UTC 2007


Egmont Koblinger (egmont at uhulinux.hu) said: 
> > Are there any reasons why translators would need a different encoding?
> 
> No, there isn't. But many translators or software developers still use other
> encodings nowadays, and there are stalling projects too. You can't get every
> software developer to convert .po files to UTF-8 and release a new
> mainstream version :( Still you want to have many of these software in
> Fedora...

True, but at least for packages where Fedora is the upstream, might
as well do it. There seem to be only 36 or so files that need fixed
(out of 3900+).

Bill




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