Re: bug report

[Karl Berry]

Thanks for your report.

As Eli said, the problems with ru.po that you mention below should be
resolved by the translator.  I just take what I'm given.  If a new ru.po
for Texinfo is submitted to the translation project, I'll happily
install it.

Thanks,
karl


Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:17:20 +0300
From: istry <address@hidden>

...

Another problem is specific to my country (Russia). File po/ru.po 
declares that it has KOI8-R
encoding while actually encoding is WINDOWS-1251. The result is that 
texinfo displays garbage
instead of Russian messages for all encodings but WINDOWS-1251. There 
are 2 obvious workarounds:
1) change declaration from KOI8-R to WINDOWS-1251
2) recode the file itself (mv ru.po ru.po.win && iconv -f WINDOWS-1251 
-t KOI8-R ru.po.win > ru.po)

Which one is better/more correct? None. Actually, there is a legacy mess
with encodings in Russian digital world. Most *nix users prefer koi8-r
while all MS addicts know nothing but windows-1251. glibc believes that
Russian is iso-8859-5 (nobody except Western vendors use it). And there
are a lot of texts in DOS encoding (IBM866). In fact, most (~99%) of
ru.po files shipped with GNU software are in koi8-r, so you could follow
this tradition.