Re: libgettextpo: Ability to work with non-ASCII without a header

[John Cowan]

Bruno Haible scripsit:

> I'm looking forward to the day when all PO files are in UTF-8. Then, a few
> years later, we can change the interpretation of PO files without a charset
> specification from ASCII to UTF-8. But we're not there yet.

Why can't this be done today, if it's the direction you are going in?
I presume that it's currently an error to use high-bit bytes in files
without charset specifications.  If so, then it would be downward
compatible to treat such files as UTF-8.

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