[Po4a-devel]Re: [Po4a-commits] po4a Build.PL,1.11,1.12

[Jordi Vilalta]

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Hi,

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> Update of /cvsroot/po4a/po4a
> In directory haydn:/tmp/cvs-serv10740
>
> Modified Files:
> =09Build.PL
> Log Message:
> Specify the documentation character set. It isn't ascii anymore since the
> addition of Nicolas Fran=E7ois to the Man.pm Authors ('=E7' isn't ascii).

I didn't see any better solution here. The authors' names are part of the=
=20
documentation, and it makes the whole documentation non-ascii. Any=20
suggestion?

> Now the documentation po files are in utf-8, and the translated pod files
> (and also the derivated man pages and html pages) are also in utf-8.

I think this is a bug. It's the same that happened some time ago when we=20
had the italian translation in utf-8, but now we can't fall back.

The solution would be to add a "-L, --localized-charset" option to=20
po4a-translate (and some equivalent for the po4a script), to force the=20
conversion of the translated document to the specified charset (so that=20
the generated po4a documentation could come back to iso8859-1, for=20
example).

Currently I don't have many time available to spend with po4a :( In=20
february I'll have some vacation weeks, so I'll be back to full activity,=
=20
but maybe it's so far in time. This issue should be solved before a new=20
po4a release. If you plan to make a new release soon, please announce it=20
as soon as posible, so I can try to solve it.

Regards,

Jordi Vilalta
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