Re: Converting English wml files to utf-8?

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi Alexander!

You wrote:

> When adding new files (in the News or events area, but I guess it's
> similar for others) I often run into encoding problems.  As Debian
> systems use utf-8 as default these days I often forget to convert the
> files I add (or sometimes I do remember and "iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1"
> doesn't work).
> Would it make sense to convert the English wml files to utf-8 as it has
> been done with some other languages, too?

Yes, I think that's a very good idea.  Everyone should be able to handle
utf8 nowadays, and using a consistent charset over as many translations
as possible would definately reduce work, I would say.

Bas.