Re: texinfo_document.po files encoding

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 28/02/2013 07:45, Federico Bruni disait :
> I've received the texinfo_document.po file from the Translation Project.
> While looking at other languages po files to understand what to
> translate and what to leave untraslated, I've noticed some strange
> characters. Probably because these files are saved as ASCII instead of
> UTF-8?
>
>
> $ file texinfo_document-5.0.fr.po
> texinfo_document-5.0.fr.po: GNU gettext message catalogue, ASCII text
>
> For example: Forme Sp@'eciale
>
> http://translationproject.org/domain/texinfo_document.html

It is because the files are in US-ASCII and not in UTF-8.
I have to admit it has been a pain for me having to type "@'a" instead 
of just "à" or "@ " for a non breakable space like in the old times of 
LaTeX (or even lyrics in LilyPond 1.3.84).

I've got an old macro for Emacs that transformed html<->ASCII when LP's 
site was in full html, and should add all those new cases.

Sorry not to be so helpfull,
Jean-Charles