[Po4a-devel]Encoding options

[Denis Barbier]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:24:13PM +0200, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I had a quick look around the charset options and I got some 
> questions:
> 
> I haven't seen any named option for choosing the po file charset. Should 
> we have one (-P, --po-charset), or should we handle all the po files with 
> the same charset?

PO files declare their encoding in their header field, so this option
is only relevant when generating PO files.  This is done only once, and
the one who generates PO files in this context does often not know which
encoding is used, so it is better to have an invalid charset as in
  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
and let translators puts the right value.

> po4a-translate doesn't have the option to select the localized file 
> charset. Should we put it? Or may it take it from the po file?
> 
> What should the defaults point to? iso-8859-1? utf-8? Something else?

ISO-8859-1 is culturally biased, the only choices are UTF-8 and the
charset of the PO file, so a --encoding=po|utf8 should be sufficient.
I have no opinion about the default value.

Denis