It seems ftp.drupal.org does not add any encoding headers for .po files. The files are in UTF-8 but if you open one in browser all non-ASCII characters are messed up. This also seems to cause problems with some users who are downloading the files. I haven't had any problems myself, but there are multiple people complaining about this in Finnish at the Finnish translation group. The problem is very easy to recreate and should be just as easy to fix in Apache config. For example have a look at http://ftp.drupal.org/files/translations/7.x/drupal/drupal-7.0.fi.po - Should have plenty of umlauts (ä and ö) in it.

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gábor hojtsy
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This would be great to fold into #911696: .po files are not served as downloads please. I'm making a note there that you've submitted this additional issue. Please follow up there.

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vesapalmu commented

There might actually be more to this problem than just this encoding issue. People are complaining about strings being cut at umlauts while the line itself is still intact. For example: "Kesäpäivä" would become only "Kes". We are still working to figure out what is causing this. I will create a new issue if this is indeed a separate issue.

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gábor hojtsy
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The encoding / MIME type should be fixed now as per the other issue, let me know how does it work now (preferably on the other issue, please). Thanks!