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diff --git a/docs/i18n.txt b/docs/i18n.txt index bf73c88008..2c43e7884e 100644 --- a/docs/i18n.txt +++ b/docs/i18n.txt @@ -456,10 +456,13 @@ otherwise, they'll be tacked together without whitespace! .. admonition:: Mind your charset - When creating a ``.po`` file with your favorite text editor, first edit + When creating a PO file with your favorite text editor, first edit the charset line (search for ``"CHARSET"``) and set it to the charset - you'll be using to edit the content. Generally, utf-8 should work for most - languages, but ``gettext`` should handle any charset you throw at it. + you'll be using to edit the content. Due to the way the ``gettext`` tools + work internally and because we want to allow non-ASCII source strings in + Django's core and your applications, you **must** use UTF-8 as the encoding + for your PO file (this means that everybody will be using the same + encoding, which is important when Django processes the PO files). To reexamine all source code and templates for new translation strings and update all message files for **all** languages, run this:: |