reassign 441835 po4a
thanks
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:58PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded:
>
>/usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz
>/usr/share/man/sv/man8/debsums_gen.8.gz
>
>According to Colin Watson, "With some exceptions for Far Eastern
>languages, manual pages should not at present be encoded using UTF-8.
>As such, it's reasonable to file bugs against packages attempting to
>use UTF-8 where it is not yet supported."
>
>Hence I'm filing this bug. The solution for now seems to be to encode
>the pages as 7-bit ASCII, using the appropriate *roff sequences to
>produce accented characters.
debsums uses po4a to generate that manual page using sv.po which the
translator has chosen to encode in utf8.
I seem to recall hearing that utf8 is the preferred encoding for po
files where possible, and in any case using utf8 is certainly much more
easier and more readable than *roff escapes like \('e ...
As such, it would seem preferable to get po4a to do the transliteration
from utf8 to the appropriate escapes.
I'm not very familiar with the po4a code, but have attached a simple
proof of concept script which could perhaps be of help in adding this
feature to po4a.
--bod
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