[wp-polyglots] Tips for translating with Rosetta

[Morgan Doocy]

Aha, I see. Thanks.

Morgan

On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Ryan Boren wrote:

>> I only suggested using escapes because of the fact that Rosetta
>> compiles its MO files in UTF-8, and there is no means of converting 
>> the
>> MOs to the user's character encoding on-the-fly within WordPress. 
>> Ryan,
>> what do you think about implementing this? It would allow users to
>> enter literal characters no matter how they work on translations, and
>> not have to worry about it being compatible with the user's selected
>> encoding.
>
> Users should get the mo files from the wordpress-i18n repository -- 
> once
> it is up and running.  If a translation team wants to provide multiple
> encodings, that's what iconv is for.  I suggest every team natively
> perform their translations in utf-8.  They can then run their utf-8 po
> file through iconv
>
> iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1
>
>
> Of course, users should be "strongly persuaded" to use UTF-8.  
> Supporting
> everyone's local encoding is maddening.
>
> Ryan
>
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