Comment 14 for bug 613721

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xrg (xrg) wrote : Re: [Bug 613721] Re: accented letters are not accepted anymore in 5.0.12

On Friday 06 August 2010, you wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I feel like agreeing to both the sides, but not without proper reason.

IMHO, xml files *must* support the full unicode charset when they load. That
said, we must play by the rules and specify the encoding at the head of the
xml file. Else, Latin-1 is assumed and strings cannot contain non-latin chars.

It is not about English as a base of translation. It is about being able to
properly support charsets. Example, if you want a string to contain the
copyright, Euro, degree or other symbols.

As for v5.0, my suggestion is to NOT change the behavior between minor
versions. If it is not a bug, if it doesn't stop somebody from working, don't
change it!