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== Pootle issues ==
Testing Pootle I have found a few issues. I will try to describe.
Pootle (and Translation Toolkit used by Pootle) use as default a charset UTF-8. Everytime I have create a new language translation, Pootle parse from templates encoding as UTF-8. Everytime I have "Update from templates" the target PO files are updated as UTF-8, and if target has set charset=iso-8859-1, it is then corrupted. I can't found a method to set Pootle to use ISO-8859-1 as default. Because this, and to avoid these issues I have decide to use UTF-8 as charset in Pootle. Please see http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/locales/glibc?s=charset#editing
Not only Pootle. Every desktop translation tool set UTF-8 as default charset.
If you want to merged or override a PO file, convert to UTF-8 (if not yet). Then you can upload without corrupt the target file.
One note for admins when Pootle run at contribs.org: I suggest to use a tool for convert from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 before make a new language rpm update package (if formmagick can't support utf-8).
I have use this great script to convert between any charset files in a directory:
#!/bin/bash
#./dir_iconv.sh dir cp1251 utf8 - converts all files from directory dir .. cp1251 (windows-1251) to utf8.
ICONVBIN='/usr/bin/iconv' # path to iconv binary
if [ $# -lt 3 ]
then
echo "$0 dir from_charset to_charset"
exit
fi
for f in $1/*
do
if test -f $f
then
echo -e "\nConverting $f"
/bin/mv $f $f.old
$ICONVBIN -f $2 -t $3 $f.old > $f
else
echo -e "\nSkipping $f - not a regular file";
fi
done
