Re: common words po non utf8 ?

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

This is very likley a KDE problem as all the gnome files are utf8.

yours
Arafat
Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Nadim Shaikli um 20:54:
> --- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > 
> >  1. Why can I view that "corrupted"? file in mlterm/browsers but not
> >     in vim/abiword, etc ?  What I am missing here ?
> 
> I hate having unresolved issues and so I dug deeper into this to find
> out why this is happening and I think I found it.  A number of the
> Gnome/KDE translated files are NOT in UTF-8, for instance look at the
> translations for,
> 
>   "Aggregates"
>   "Anchor"
>   "Rotate"
>   "Transform"
>   "Confirm"
>   "Connect"
>   "Duplicate"
> 
> among others.  So what happens (I'm assuming here) from vim's point of
> view (and abiword's and others') is that it opens the file, looks at
> the various characters and say "oh, this is not 100% UTF-8 clean, let
> me just show it in raw format" where-as mlterm and the browsers are
> more forgiving by saying "let me show all things that are UTF-8 clean
> and leave the rest in raw-format" (ie. that would seem more CPU/time
> consuming and so what vim and others are doing is understandable).
> 
> So how did I generate a cleaner file ? I forced the perl script to read
> all input as though it is UTF-8 and to output all as though it is UTF-8
> (if things came in as garbage from utf-8 format point of view, they
> went out that way) and so that corrected the resulting file.
> 
> The problem, as noted, lives in our translated files and the various
> wrong encodings/strings used -- I highly recommend that the various
> project maintainers (namely Gnome and KDE) look over the common_terms.po
> file looking for garbage characters and correcting their source files
> ASAP (again the few listed terms above should show you what I mean).
> 
> Case in point - gnome/extra/gimp-libgimp.po
> 
> and and and and :-)
> 
> >  2. Why is debian's vim package (vim-6.2-149+1.deb) without Arabic
> >     support (we need to correct this ASAP).
> 
> This _must_ be resolved ASAP still.
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim "a bit more relaxed now" Shaikli :-)
> 
> 
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