i18n pot file

[P at draigBrady.com]

anabell wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to localize to Chinese language.  In the pot file header, 
> there appears:
>  
>     "POT-Creation-Date: Thu Oct 16 17:07:14 2003\n"
>     "PO-Revision-Date: 2003-10-16 HO:MI+ZONE\n"
>     "Last-Translator: Anabell chan <achan at mail.design.com 
> <mailto:achan at mail.design.com>>\n"
>     "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL at li.org <mailto:LL at li.org>>\n"
>     "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
>     "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
>     "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
>     "Generated-By: pygettext.py 1.5\n"
> What should i fill in the 'CHARSET' and 'ENCODING' ?

It depends. The best CHARSET to use is UTF-8
but of course you have to enter UTF-8 data into
the po file. You can write all languages in UTF-8.
There are charsets specific to language (groups)
which you may prefer. For e.g.
  Big5        for traditional chinese
  gb2312      for simplified chinese
  ISO-8859-15 for western European languages

The ENCODING should be 8bit in all cases

The handiest thing to do is to look at examples:
http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~gnutra/registry.cgi?team=zh_CN

Maybe you could even practice on my application :-)
http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~gnutra/registry.cgi?domain=fslint

Pádraig.