Bug#450911: tex-common: [INTL:nb] debconf translation for Norwegian Bokmal
* Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> [2007-11-13]:
> Quoting Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de):
> > On 12.11.07 Hans Fredrik Nordhaug (hans@nordhaug.priv.no) wrote:
> >
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > > Here is the Norwegain Bokmål debconf translation.
> > >
> > Would it be possible to translate that file into Unicode?
>
>
> (Not speaking for Hans Fredrik who, as translator, should have the
> final word on this, so please take this as a simple advice)
>
> I usually encourage translators to send UTF-8 encoded
> files. However. I think that there is no reason to *enforce* this and
> I generally discourage maintainers to do it themselves without
> translator's approval.
>
> A good compromise is asking, just like you did. Either the translators
> refuses, for good or bad reasons, and I recommend to not insist. Or
> (s)he accepts and you can do do it The Right Way:
>
> msgconv -t utf-8 nb.po >nb-new.po
I did reply to the maintainer privately[1] that I was happy to convert
the translation to UTF-8 or that he could do it himself using iconv.
Using msgconv is of course better since it also handles the
content type/charset setting - thx for the tip, Christian. However, as
I suggested to the maintainer - what about actually inserting the
preferred charset in the pot file?
Regards,
Hans
[1] I didn't notice that the bug tracker also was on recipient list.
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