Re: Bug#567781: Conversion of english pages to Unicode, via HTML entities.

[victory <victory.deb@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:15:41 -0400
David Prévot wrote:


> > For example:
> > authors "Osamu Aoki (青木 修)">
> > <maintainer "Osamu Aoki (&#38738;&#26408; &#20462;)">
> > Can I make them into more readable UTF-8 strings:
> > authors "Osamu Aoki (青木 修)">
> > <maintainer "Osamu Aoki (青木 修)">
> > If noone object, I will...

> If you wish, but please, don't touch any file that code may be used
> verbatim in other language (all of them are not in UTF-8 yet) since it
> will brake some of them (e.g. don't touch the code that is used to
> generate POT files, and most of the *.src or *.def files), and do update
> translation check of every translation of English pages you will be
> editing (./smart_change.pl could be handy for that), I personally don't
> care if you do the same changes in translated language, but as you seem
> to care, feel free to change them too if they are UTF-8 ready.

-1;
NOT all editors handle utf8 files correctly,
so it's NOT good to change all translations.
apparently it will get into some trouble.
- the editor i'm using does not break most of langs but does break some..
- well, assumed that the editor does break nothing,
  but please think how to edit those.
  I don't want to edit files which have strings I can't read/input
  such as accent'ed characters and russian, arabian, etc.

-- 
victory
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