Re: Request for ideas how to fix #297074
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:55:36PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>> 1. use an editor which can auto-detect the file encoding, e.g. vim
>> AND
>> 2. run poedit on a file which is in encoding A, while your locale is set
>> to use encoding B. (where neither A nor B is a subset of the other. For
>> example UTF-8 and Latin2)
>
> Uhm, Latin2 _is_ a subset of UTF-8.
No. You are confusing character sets and encodings.
Codepoint-wise, Latin-2 has a one-to-one mapping to a subset of Unicode
while Latin-1 is a subset of Unicode. ASCII is a subset of both Unicode
and UTF-8.
--
ilmari
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