Thread: UTF8 for all translations?

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org wrote:

> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 02:40:12 -0300
>
> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:31:08 +0800
> From: Zhenbang Wei <zhenbang@gmail.com>
> Subject: Traditional Chinese translations in UTF-8 for 7.5
>
> Using UTF-8 instead of anonying Big5.
> Sorry for causing problems.

Why not to use UTF8 fot all .po file for consistency (and to possibly
avoid future problems like that)? Take a look at pgAdmin III as an
example.

> Thanks.

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Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
> Why not to use UTF8 fot all .po file for consistency (and to possibly
> avoid future problems like that)?

I'd consider that a bother that brings us no real benefit.

> Take a look at pgAdmin III as an example.

I assume that pgAdmin uses a Unicode-only display.  We, however, have to
do encoding conversion anyway, so it effectively doesn't matter which
encoding we initially store it in.

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