Re: [bug-gawk] Several of gawk's po files are not UTF-8

[Federico Leva]

Eli Zaretskii, 29/01/2015 17:17:
> Why do you think it's a mess?

Due to the downstream bug I linked.

> > >he.po:    GNU gettext message catalogue, ISO-8859 text
> This one is not in UTF-8 on purpose.

Thanks. Is the reason documented somewhere? I'm interesting in learning 
more about GNU i18n/l10n.

> Don't know about the others, but
> I see no reason to call other encodings "a mess".

Is "unpredictable" a better word? Nowadays a lot of software refuses to 
work with non-Unicode documents