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Re: [PATCH] Set character set for libc.pot (preparing for 2.16update for translation team).


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 04:53:35PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> In preparing for the 2.16 release I need to regenerate the libc.pot file.
> 
> The first bug I'd like to tackle is that we don't set the character set 
> for the pot file. This results in a warning:
> 
> ~~~
> po/libc.pot.new: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
>                           Message conversion to user's charset might not work.
> ~~~
> 
> We can either set it in the po/header.pot file or in the Makefile.
> 
> I would prefer to set it in the Makefile so we don't loose the setting
> if we regenerate the header from scratch.
> 
> Is UTF-8 the correct value here?
> 
> It's probably overkill, but that's fine.
> 
> Comments?

AIUI, it just serves as default charset for new translations?
In that case, I think UTF-8 is definitely the best idea.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis


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