Re: webmin translation and encoding question
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:43:23PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 14:34, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > how are the config.info.XX files in webmin generated?
>
> by the scripts in po-webmin (po2webmin specifically) [1]
>
> > i noticed that the module config pages are displayed in
> > ISO-8859-1 encoding, while the strings in config.info are utf-8.
> >
> > can we generate them in latin1 right away?
>
> <groan>, yes this can be done, in fact that used to be the case:
> This was changed recently [2] because supposedly our modules are using utf-8
> (instead of the default webmin-encodings).
webmin handles the module config page itself and uses latin1
there, while i use utf-8 on wlus pages.
> Can anyone tell me conclusively:
> - whether our modules use utf-8 or not?
wlus does, as far as it can.
> - if they do use utf-8, does that go for the entire module or only for the
> lang/XX files (with the config.info.XX files, and module.info using the
> webmin default?)
lang/XX files are utf-8, config.info would need latin1. what is
module.info?
> - wether it is possible to autodetect the encoding used by a
> module/different parts of a module? If so how?
one can detect utf-8 by doing a iconf -f utf-8 -t utf-8. if that
succeeds it is either pure ascii or utf-8.
if it fails it *could* be a mix. that is an evil corner case which is
not easy to handle in an automatic way.
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