Taro Muraoka wrote:

> Thank you for thinking about it.
> 
> And we had discussed it in vim-jp (you know, it is Japanese vim users
> and developers community).  The discussion was held in Japanese, but I
> reveal its URL for reference.
> 
> https://github.com/vim-jp/issues/issues/364
> 
> 
> > How about keeping the previous ja.po as ja.euc-jp.po?
> 
> Probably there are no needs.  In this decade, in Japan, EUC-JP is being
> replaced by UTF-8 on lot of UNIX like systems.

Well, it's very easy to add the iconv.  Even when it helps only a few
people.

> > I assume there are still people using euc-jp.
> 
> We must assume there are still people using gettext without iconv.  It
> depends on gettext(libintl) that UTF-8 version ja.po works properly on
> EUC-JP systems.  And GNU gettext "de facto standard" uses iconv in
> over this ten years.
> 
> I speculate there are no or very very very few people using gettext
> without iconv.

On Solaris?  HP-UX?  Those systems that just keep working and never
get updated.

> > It can be converted from ja.po with iconv.  I tried it and it appears
> > to work fine.
> 
> So, how about add some documentation for EUC-JP users in
> src/po/README.txt, instead of including ja.euc-jp.po.  I'll write it.

I'll include it for now, we can always delete it when it doesn't
actually work.

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