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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 18:56, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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?

Local conversion burden, one translator is using ISO8859-2 locale, but
another is using it, too, and doesn't mind.

Regards,
R.

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