Re: Accepted po-debconf 0.2.2 (all source)
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 05:28:04PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:07:18 +0200
> barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) wrote:
>
> > > I think we need to support multiple encodings for a given language,
> > > given the mess it seems Japanese is in.
> >
> > I am confused, does this mean that e.g. for French translations we
> > will have to maintain 3 versions (ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 and UTF-8)?
>
> Why do you need to maintain 3 versions when the two other should be
> auto-generatable from 1 of them?
That's my understanding of the first sentence quoted above.
> The thing is, if the data is provided in charset A, and the current display
> charset is B, and A!=B, iconv needs to happen, and that doesn't necessarily
> mean we need to jump to UTF-8, and trash every data that existed.
>
> Making the templates file utf-8 itself does not help solve the main problem,
> much.
Agreed, that's why adding an Encoding-xx: header field in all templates fits
our needs without breakage.
Denis
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