Re: 'make update-po' breaks multibyte .po file

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no> writes:

> Den 02 Mar 2001 04:05:54 +0900, skrev Yukihiro Nakai:
> > Hello, I'm new to here.
> > 
> > msgmerge in gettext-0.10.35 doesn't recognize multibyte,
> > so it breaks the multibyte chars when it rebreaks long lines.
> > 
> > (AA, BB: multibyte chars)
> > 
> > msgstr "...........AABBAABBAABB"
> > 
> > will be
> > 
> > msgstr ""
> > "..............AAB"
> > "BAABBAABB"
> > 
> > And oops. Sometimes it may be unable to compile after msgmerge.
> > 
> > So, I think we should someting like this:
> > 
> > - Don't msgmerge. Especially, before the new release.
> > - Use a patch I append here. (But it is just for EUC-JP...)
> 
> 
> Is there any reason why this patch shouldn't be in gettext proper?
> You know you work for the same company that maintains it, right? ;-)

Actually, Bruno Haible now maintains the gettext package, not 
Ulrich, so it's not a Red Hat person. ;-)

I sent some mail to Bruno yesterday asking about this problem.
and he replied that he is working on a fix.

(The patch here is limited to only the single encoding EUC-JP,
while the future fix will be more general, since there are
quite a few other affected encodings.)

Regards,
                                        Owen