Japanese and UTF8

[IIDA Yosiaki]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:
>now that we have a Japanese translation, we have to do a conversion from
>EOC_JP to UTF-8, because UTF-8 is the required encoding for user IDs
>and some other strings in OpenPGP.

  At the last time I replied to this message, maybe I was
too excited and lost sime points.

  As this list is named gnupg-i18n, it is for internationalization.
Internationalization is a process of generalization.  OTOH,
Japanization and other localizations are processes of
specialization, and they are facing the very opposite side.

  So my first lost point is this:
    In this list, do we want to discuss localizations as
    well as internationalization?

>Do you mean to escape all non 7bit characters like "\dd" ?
...
>You know have to do this using the --charset option which defaults to
>latin-1.  Therefore I should use libiconv.

  My second option, escapings like \dd, \xdd and others come
to me as idea of --transfer-encoding option.  And specifying
a charset and specifying a transfer encoding are two
DIFFERENT things.  You may want to use \xdd even when you
are using default Latin-1 charset and thus we'd better not
get confused by these two.
--
  iida