German translation for xfwm4

Guido Draheim guidod-2003- at gmx.de
Fri Jan 24 17:57:02 CET 2003


Michael Jakl schrieb:
> Hello,
> I tried to generate a german translation for xfwm4, but had several problems
> with UTF-8... :-/ I hope the file is (finally) in UTF-8.
> 
> If the encoding is correct, I'll get to the other files, but please
> check the first one.
> 
> Could someone explain how to setup emacs21 to save the file as UTF-8?
> Whenever I saved my file, the umlauts messed up... (I finally did it
> with jedit, but I like the po editing features of emacs).

a quick google search did reveal this gem:
   http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2002-May/0023.html

after a few try-and-error rounds, this emerged:

LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs ....
META-x set-keyboard-coding-system RET utf-8 RET
META-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET utf-8 RET

-- cheers, guido




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