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2006-07-07 11:16:49 +00:00
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Language files which contain non-ascii characters should either be properly
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marked unicode files (UTF-8 with a leading Byte Order Mark or UTF-16 with a
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leading Byte Order Mark) or should encode those characters as \u escape
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sequences so that they are usable on systems where the default C-String
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encoding is not the same as the one on which the language files were created!
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2002-04-07 18:56:08 +00:00
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Since it is generally not easy to edit unicode directly, or enter the
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correct unicode escape sequences, it is recommended that you use the
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cvtenc tool to perform conversions of the files before and after editing
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in the default encoding used by your system.
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For example, to edit the French language file so that it contains an ascii
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propertly list with \u escape sequeneces, you could do -
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2006-07-07 11:16:49 +00:00
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cvtenc -EscapeIn yes French > tmpfile
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vi tmpfile
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cvtenc -EscapeOut yes tmpfile > French
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rm tmpfile
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2006-07-07 11:16:49 +00:00
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A common case is where you have a file in UTF-8, but the Byte Order Mark is
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missing, so you need to fix it up ...
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cvtenc -Encoding 'UNICODE UTF-8' FileWithMissingBOM >tmpFile
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cvtenc -EscapeOut yes tmpFile > French
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