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

[John Cowan]

Bruno Haible scripsit:

> 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.

I don't see the relevance of that.  If you view any non-ASCII file using
a dumb (non-locale-sensitive) text editor, you will see mojibake unless
your locale's encoding matches the file's.

Currently, there is a rule "if no encoding header and has high-bit
bytes, then error"; I'm proposing changing that to "if no encoding
header and has high-bit bytes, then UTF-8".  Files in other encodings
with headers are not affected; files in other encodings without errors
are bogus anyway.

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