Proposal: Convert .mo files to UTF-8

[Bill Nottingham]

Kjartan Maraas (kmaraas at broadpark.no) said: 
> We've had a policy in the GNOME project that says all .po files should
> be UTF-8 encoded. Why not do it at that level so it has no chance of
> impacting packaging? Are there any reasons why translators would need a
> different encoding?

Other than potentially using cranky tools that only understand local
charsets, I can't think of one.

Heck, if someone wants this unilaterally done on all the i18n.redhat.com
po files, it can happen. He he he.

Bill