bad encoding in django.po french file

Hi fredz,

What's the reason of this suggestion?. I ask because I maintain the Agentinean spanish transalation and so far they are coded and tagged as ISO-8859-1 (inherited from the generic Spanish transalation). Is there anything in the Django documentation that suggest/mandates this?.

I'm no opposing the idea, I just want to know so I can change es_AR message catalogs to UTF-8 too if necessary.

A quick overview of the charset headers of some European language django.po files now (SVN revision 3083):

lang	charset
cs	utf-8
cy	utf-8
da	utf-8
de	iso-8859-1
es	iso-8859-1
fr	iso-8859-1
it	utf-8
nl	utf-8
pl	utf-8

In fact, the file fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po is utf-8 encoded but has a iso-latin header ! You are right, it would be better to translate django.po in iso-latin. I can do it if you want, but I have no access

po file converted to iso-8859-1

corresponding mo file (msgfmt -o django.mo django.po)

Fredz,

It seems Django (or more correctly the gettext tools) doesn't enforce any charset. From http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/i18n/#message-files:

-x8- Mind your charset

When creating a .po file with your favorite text editor, first edit the charset line (search for "CHARSET") and set it to the charset you'll be using to edit the content. Generally, utf-8 should work for most languages, but gettext should handle any charset you throw at it. -8x-

So it IMHO this ticket can be closed. If you read this and agree please do so.

Regards,

in the spirit of "do the least possible damage by doing the least possible work" ;-) - I just changed the charset denotation in the file to utf-8, as the file itself is utf-8.

(In [3090]) fixed #2090: fixed bad charset header in po file