[wp-polyglots] Tips for translating with Rosetta

[K Suominen]

When I type in text on Rosetta, how do I know what character set gets
used?  How do I change it, if it is not UTF-8?

+ Kim


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:21:02 -0600, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:10 -0500, K Suominen wrote:
> >I think you are misunderstanding.
> >
> >The problem you are describing is solved by using entities in the po
> >file, on which there is no disagreement.
> >
> >I just find it quite impractical (I'd like to say "impossible") to
> >enter the translations using entities as opposed to typing the
> >appropriate keys on my keyboard.
> 
> Only use escapes for characters in exceptional circumstances. Create
> pages using an encoding that supports all the characters you need.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-char-20040509/#IDAPNGO
> 
> I suggest everyone use UTF-8 as this is what WordPress (and most
> everything else) supports best.  If you want to put non-UTF-8
> translations in the repository, add the character set to the filename.
> es_ES.ISO-8859-1.po
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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