Re: Please unblock ax25-apps 0.0.6-14.1

[Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org>]

Hi,

At Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:10:14 +0100,
Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > It seems OK for me.
> > 
> > Ok, unblocked.
> 
> Can I take this as a "GO" for switchign ALL Japanese manpages to
> UTF-8?
> 
> I do this with:
> 
> msgconv -t utf-8 ja.po >ja-new.po
> 
> which basically does an "iconv" on the file and changes the header.
> 
> It only fails when the original PO file is incorrect which I catch
> anyway when I'm doing l10n uploads.

Ah, it sounds bit dangerous.

There are some incompatible characters between EUC-JP and UTF-8,
such as seamark. (sorry, I haven't a complete list of them)
Although I can recommend Japanese translators to use UTF-8 for po-files,
please keep the encoding as same as a translator sends at this moment.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org