I forget to add for those falling in the middle that Nicolas argues that the
requirement for the 'charset=' string also stems from po editors depending
on it to determine which charset to save the file in.
Emacs po mode does seem to do just that...
> > >If the encoding of the po file (say UTF-8) does not match the active
> > >locale (say iso-8859-1) then at least GNU gettext will translate the
> > >UTF-8 from the po to iso-8859-1 in the presence of a 'charset=' string.
> > >When this happens the output of *gettext() won't be
> > >the required UTF-8...
>
> > >That's why I don't see any other way than preventing gettext to know
> > >what to translate from. You are ofcourse free to temporarily add them,
> > >but they can't be in the Subversion repository or the 'compiled' mo...
> > >
> >
> > I'm saying this:
> >
> > Implementations which convert charset and support
> > bind_textdomain_codeset():
> > so we call bind_textdomain_codeset() and everything is OK.
> >
> > Implementations which do not convert charsets and do not suppoer
> > bind_textdomain_codeset():
> > so we make all the .po files UTF-8 encoded.
> >
> > Is there an implementation which convert between charsets and do not
> > support bind_textdomain_codeset()? Only if such an implementation exists
> > it should be required to strip the encoding specification from the .po
> > files, IMO.
>
> I don't know any such system, but only have GNU gettext available and know
> about the existence of the Solaris one. Although I have tried to find out
> I
> have no idea if this completely describes the problem space. (Usually that
> means it doesn't :-)
>
> bye,
>
>
> Erik.
>
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