[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] converting documentation to UTF-8

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:43:20PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 17:14, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > So I've finally taken the plunge and converted my system to UTF-8.
> > Apart from getting more spam in legible characters now I can look at
> > translations and see the right characters when I convert them with
> > iconv.
> > 
> > This makes me think that the moment to convert everything to UTF-8 may
> > have come.  Others have been lobbying for it before, I'm willing to go
> > along now.
> > 
> > Is there anything that speaks against the conversion?  Will it cause
> > problems for translators?  Any volunteers to do it?
> 
> There's a vote going on on Polish translation team private mailing list
> currently and the result is 2:1 in favour so far.

What are the arguments against it?

Diego