Re: [help-texinfo] Special characters in texinfo's PO files

2017-07-13 Thread Karl Berry
> My question: What is the correct for special characters in texinfo's PO > files - to use texinfo's syntax, or to use UTF-8 (or whatever charset)? .po files long predate Unicode and UTF-8, and I don't think gettext supported UTF-8 well for some years after it was invented. Therefore it do

Re: [help-texinfo] Special characters in texinfo's PO files

2017-07-13 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:45:37PM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > Hello! > > Looking at the Gettext message catalogs (PO files) for "texinfo" and > "texinfo_document" translation domain, I notice that from some languages > they where translated using texinfo's syntax for special characters, > i

[help-texinfo] Special characters in texinfo's PO files

2017-07-11 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
Hello! Looking at the Gettext message catalogs (PO files) for "texinfo" and "texinfo_document" translation domain, I notice that from some languages they where translated using texinfo's syntax for special characters, instead of using UTF-8. So, for example, Brazilian Portuguese translation of "te