> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 05:40:38AM -0400, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: >> URL: >> <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110501> >> >> Summary: Plese convert all po/*.po fiels to UTF-8 >> Project: GNU M4 > >> Currently most of the systems are using UTF-8 based locale settings. >> Whhen .po file is in non UTF-8 encoding it causes that generated .mo file is >> in teh esame encoding. This is causing that when actually .mo file is used >> (g)glibc must on the fly convert it to UTF-8.
Is performance when printing out messages a concern? I don't think it is a problem. I would just let gettext do its magic when needed. Anyway, at the TP I cannot just change the encoding of a file -- it is the prerogative of the translators to decide what encoding they want to use. Of the Danish team I know that they prefer to hold on to the ISO-8859-1 encoding. But... to improve things I have relinked the latest/m4/*.po files at the TP, from the last translator-submitted PO file (many of which are almost twenty years old) to the 1.4.18d PO files that I merged together from three different PO files (m4, gnulib, and glibc). Apart from Danish, Galician, and Indonesian, they are now all in UTF-8. And they now contain many more translated strings (those imported from gnulib and glibc). Benno
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