[i18n] Converting the Czech translation from ISO 8859-2 to UTF-8

Michael Grafnetter grafnetter at dekanat.mff.cuni.cz
Wed Jan 14 16:19:27 UTC 2015


Hi,

I would like to propose a change of encoding of the Czech translation 
from ISO 8859-2 to UTF-8.

Pros of this change:
- UTF-8 is IMHO currently more widely supported than ISO 8859-2.
- Access keys referring to characters with diacritical marks could be 
used, e.g. "_UÚkoly". This is currently not possible and a different 
letter must be chosen as an access key, e.g. "Ú_koly", which does not 
make much sense.

Cons:
- All the Czech *.po files would need to be converted to UTF-8 and all 
access keys would need to be repaired, which is quite error-prone. 
Perhaps a script could help to automate this task.

What is your opinion of this?

Thx.

Michael Grafnetter



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