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[Goofy]

hello all

As everyone, I still have encoding problems from time to time. Even if I can avoid most of them by experience, I am very ignorant about ANSI, UTF8 (to which I have a superstitious fervor) and whatsoever weird things
Sometimes I am proud to find the bug and to have spent hours for a "&" in a locale file..
Sometimes I am ashamed of having destroyed the ja-JP locale of a babelZillian friend, just with opening/closing a file with Pspad set for UTF8

So... Some of you seem to know much about that, some others are real hackers, some are dedicated to sorcery code ...

so please post your tricks and tips and knowledge here !

[victory]

differs from latin-derivative-language,
Japanese(of course Chinese and Korean also I think) charcters are completely differece so we cannot edit in 'escaped Unicode' format.
as I said above, we use native2ascii to transform them after edit has finished.
I hate this so I'm using semi-automation script to avoid this step though.
anyway, latin chars go through asis, so author's editor should be able to handle at least latin chars correctly :-p

additionary, authors who don't have public repository(real repository, or web-based) should provide diffs between previous version and recent version :-p
my work go using svn so I can see diffs anyway though :-)