Re: [Po4a-devel]Encoding options
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:45:36PM +0200, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
[...]
>No, it must be ASCII by default because 'ascii is preferred
over utf-8
>by translators'.
>
Well, this "detect" means that the the document specifies the charset
inside himself (like the xml headers: <?xml encoding='iso-8859-1'?>),
the format module checks it, and then this should be converted to utf-8.
Which charset will be used for the POT file? Just to be clear, my
opinion is that if an encoding is declared (either iso-8859-1 or utf-8)
but document only contains ASCII characters, the POT file should not
declare its charset being UTF-8 (ie. charset=CHARSET is unchanged).
>>- If nothing can determine the file encoding, assume it's
in ascii and
>> don't convert anything (and set the po charset to something invalid, so
>> that the translator can set it)
>
>If master file contains non-ASCII characters, one can check whether it
>is UTF-8 encoded. In such a case, lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm has to write
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
>instead of
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
>in the POT file. If translated PO files already exist, they have to
>be converted to UTF-8 so that they can be merged with the POT file.
Do you mean that an update on the master document can cause the change
from ascii to utf-8 and we should convert the po files to utf-8 when
updating?
Yes, as soon as master document contains non-ASCII characters, PO files
have to be UTF-8 encoded.
Denis
PS: I am away on Sunday for 2 weeks, and do not know if I will be able to
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