[wp-polyglots] Changing charset in UTF-8 .po file

[Kimmo Suominen]

I wrote a plugin to handle that, so that there would not be a need for
separate translations for different character sets.

    http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/charsets/

Just activate the plugin and change the charset in options | reading.

WordPress 2.0.1 or later doesn't even require any patching anymore.

However, if you really do want a separate po file, you can use the iconv
command combined with some hand editing:

    iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 < original.po > new.po

Then edit the headers at the beginning of new.po reflect the new
character set (basically just replace all instances of UTF-8).

Best regards,
+ Kimmo
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<A HREF="http://kimmo.suominen.com/">Kimmo Suominen</A>

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 01:59:00AM +0000, Brynjólfur Ólason wrote:
> How do I change the character set in my .po file (UTF-8 into ISO-8859-1) 
> without harming the translation? Changing the charset in Project info 
> (Catalog + Settings) is obviously not the right way.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Greetings from Bryn