The issue was discussed in this thread on the mailing list:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-March/011324.html
In addition, the GNU gettext manual states that translation encoding is
completely separate from the encoding used by the users of the translation.
It makes sense for our project to use UTF-8 for all translations, regardless
of the preferred encoding used by users of a certain language. This allows
all contributors to more easily edit a translation file if necessary and not
have to worry about codepage issues.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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