moving all .po files to UTF-8

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 15:43:24 UTC 2007


Keld Jørn Simonsen (keld at dkuug.dk) said: 
> It still gives better quality, IMHO.  Why shift to something inferiour?

It's not inferior. By housing all the translations in UTF-8, it
allows us to make the software more efficient, using less memory
and CPU time when running. That's important.

> And since then, I have not done much for GNOME wrt. translations. And
> Danish Gnome has dropped somewhat - 2.18 is now 83 % where the latest
> used to be almost 100 % translated. So it is better for the project 
> overall to keep everybody on board.

I truly hope that any locale is not so dependent on one translator...

Bill




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