i18n pot file

[anabell]

Hi, I'm trying to localize to Chinese language. In the pot file header,
there appears:

"POT-Creation-Date: Thu Oct 16 17:07:14 2003\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2003-10-16 HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: Anabell chan <achan@mail.des ign.com>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n "
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET \n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
"Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"

What should i fill in the 'CHARSET' and 'ENCODING' ?

[P@draigBrady.com]

Re: i18n pot file

anabell wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi, I'm trying to localize to Chinese language. In the pot file header,
> there appears:
>
> "POT-Creation-Date: Thu Oct 16 17:07:14 2003\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: 2003-10-16 HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> "Last-Translator: Anabell chan <achan@mail.des ign.com
> <mailto:achan@m ail.design.com> >\n"
> "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org <mailto:LL@li.o rg>>\n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET \n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
> "Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
> What should i fill in the 'CHARSET' and 'ENCODING' ?[/color]

It depends. The best CHARSET to use is UTF-8
but of course you have to enter UTF-8 data into
the po file. You can write all languages in UTF-8.
There are charsets specific to language (groups)
which you may prefer. For e.g.
Big5 for traditional chinese
gb2312 for simplified chinese
ISO-8859-15 for western European languages

The ENCODING should be 8bit in all cases

The handiest thing to do is to look at examples:

http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~gnutra/registry.cgi?team=zh_CN

Maybe you could even practice on my application :-)

http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~gnutra/registry.cgi?domain=fslint

Pádraig.

[Radovan Garabik]

[OT] Re: i18n pot file

P@draigbrady.co m wrote:[color=blue]
>
> It depends. The best CHARSET to use is UTF-8
> but of course you have to enter UTF-8 data into
> the po file. You can write all languages in UTF-8.[/color]

of course, strictly speaking this is not true.
There are languages with scripts not
included into unicode yet (such as Old Slavic
glagolitic script), or languages already rejected
from unicode (e.g. Klingon script)...
Just nitpicking.


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