Re: texinfo_document.po files encoding

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 28/02/2013 13:11, Federico Bruni disait :
> 2013/2/28 Jean-Charles Malahieude <address@hidden>
>
> > 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).
>
> Do you mean they _have to_ be ASCII? It looks weird... why not using UTF-8?
>
> The italian file is UTF-8, for example.
> Why french and german are ASCII?
As well as Norwegian, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Spanish, 
which makes 6 out of 10 available languages.

I don't have any idea about this. Might be worth asking Patrice Dumas 
why only certain files are US-ASCII and other UTF-8, even if both 
languages do contain accented characters or ligatures.

Cheers,
Jean-Charles