Sven Neumann wrote: [snip] > The advantage is that translators can use their standard tools and can > decide to edit the po file in whatever encoding they like. The parser to > read this file should be pretty much straightforward including the > language handling. This solution will require some Makefile fiddling, > but as soon as everything is in place, it should work almost transparently. I wholeheartedly welcome this solution. In fact, it is one of the solutions I've suggested all along, although that might have been less than obvious (sorry :-( ). > The format I've outlined above still has one problem unrelated to i18n: > Do we want to allow paragraphs in tips for nicer layouting and how do > we represent them? By adding a <para>...</para> tag ?! I have to agree with what Rebecca recently mentioned regarding this matter. Hope we can agree on this solution, Christian