Re: UTF-8 encoding of i18n files?

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I'm also in support of UTF8 for Speakup.

I'd like to set my mua, mutt, to utf8; but, that's currently a fraught
undertaking that makes knowing where I am rather impossible, so I've reverted the mutt default to iso8859-1.

Best,
Janina


Samuel Thibault writes:
> Hello,
> 
> i18n files are currently encoded in latin1 (aka iso-8859-1), which poses
> problem for various languages whose characters cannot be encoded that
> way.  We could duplicate the i18n entries, one in latin1 and one in
> utf-8, but it will probably be much simpler to just switch the i18n
> files to utf-8 and be done? Would anybody be against this?
> 
> (for english that changes nothing)
> 
> Samuel

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Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

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