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

[Bruno Haible]

John Cowan wrote:
> > 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?

Because some users, especially in Europe, are still in an ISO-8859-x locale.
I can only estimate it: between 10% and 30%, I guess. If they look at UTF-8
encoded PO files for their language in a normal text editor, they see only
garbage.

Japan, with EUC-JP, is similar.

Bruno