Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I'm intending to convert dlls/kernel32/nls/fr.nls from CP 1252 to CP
> >> 65001 (UTF-8),
> >
> > Is there a ny reason behind that?
>
> Uniformisation? Universality? All other rc files (at least Fr ones,
> and most of the others) have already been
> converted.

If that's the only reason then there is no reasion to bother. On the other
hand if you are working on translating those files, or adding new translations
then you are free to choose the file encoding. dlls/kernel32/nls/* files
are autogenerated, so leave them alone.

--
Dmitry.