Re: i18n/gettext?

[Karl Eichwalder]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>>     > Why should it matter to translators what encoding to use for
>>     > the translated strings?

Another possibility is to convert the messages at installation time; the
forthcoming GNU gettext package will offer msgconv for those purposes.
msgconv makes use of iconv.

> Or they may want to use 'grep' on them.
> If the files use a private Emacs encoding, these other tools won't
> work properly.

Yes.

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