Re: po compilation breakage

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> I can't finish building Dia because of these errors in a .po file:
>
> file=./echo zh_TW.Big5 | sed 's,.*/,,'.gmo \
>   && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file
>   zh_TW.Big5.po
> zh_TW.Big5.po:161: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:382: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:1592: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:1907: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:1911: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:1915: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:2050: illegal control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:2808: illegal control sequence
> found 8 fatal errors
>
> It looks like msgfmt is being confused by the Big5 chars used... because
> on several occasion there are '\' that are just part of the multibyte
> charset.  What is the solution ?

A solution to get it to compile is to --disable-nls, but it does need to be
fixed.

-Lars

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