[Po4a-devel]was: po4a eats accented chars when the encoding is wrongly set

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Yves Rutschle wrote:

>That reminds me of something else I found annoying with >po4a-update: If you translate a PO file into some language >using iso8859-1, but forget to precise the charset in the >header of the PO file, and don't give the charset to >po4a-update either, then po4a-update proceeds to remove all >accentuated characters from the file. > >I am not sure what the best way to handle this would be; >presumably, one could do some heuristic ("there are many >strange characters in there, probably this isn't ascii") and >ask for confirmation that you do actually want to filter out >strange characters. Fact is, most of the time you won't want >to. Thanks for the advice. I don't have many time now to fix it, so it would be nice if you could open a bug report about it. Thanks ;)