Hi Eike, >>>conflicts during cws resync caused by this change. In this case convert >>>your new / changed strings to UTF8. >> >>Dumb question: how do I do this? > > Dull answer: use an editor ;-) > ...
Well, what I like about the concept of an "Integrated Development Environment (IDE)" is the word "integrated" .... (and no, neither my IDE's editor nor my fallback editor (TextPad) currently seem to recognize UTF-8 :( ) Let me rephrase this: When such a change was first discussed, there was the idea to use files which somehow indicate they're UTF-8, IIRC with some signature bytes at the beginning, something like this. It was said that this would enable more editors to properly handle those files. What became of this idea? I'm not really objecting the change as such, I suppose it solves a lot of problems for people L10N'ing OOo. However, to me it seems to create new problems for other people (well, developers). This is okay in general, provided that the sum of hassles decreased (it's bad luck then that now some of us developers have the hassle to do additional conversion steps or change to another editor). However, it would have been nice to address those new problems before doing the change, IMO. Anyway. If German is removed from the files, the problems would vanish. However, I'm still waiting for the answer how this interacts with our current feature implementation process, which requires us developers to specify and implement the German strings from the beginning. > For other editors, if they're not able to cope with utf-8, you may > always type and save your text in latin1 respectively cp1252 and use the > ``recode'' utility to convert, e.g. ``recode latin1..utf-8 filename'' > respectively ``recode cp1252..utf-8 filename''. However, I'd suggest > switching editor in this case ;-) "recode" is not known in my development environment ... (yeah, I can probably obtain it somewhere. Again: Would have been nice to address those issues *beforehand*.) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
