[wp-polyglots] Tips for translating with Rosetta

[Morgan Doocy]

Rosetta sets your browser to UTF-8 by default. If you have Firefox with 
the Web Developer extension, you can check a server's character 
encoding setting by going to Information > View Response Headers.)

Morgan

On Feb 16, 2005, at 5:03 PM, K Suominen wrote:

> 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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