Re: gettext-0.10.37 is released

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:

> It is at ftp.gnu.org and mirrors in gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.37.tar.gz
>
> It is a bugfix release of 0.10.36.
>
> Note that Chinese/Japanese PO files in Big5, GBK or Shift_JIS encoding must
> be modified when switching from 0.10.35 to 0.10.37. A command like
>   "env OLD_PO_FILE_INPUT=yes msgmerge zh.po PACKAGE.pot -o zh.po.new"
> will convert a PO file from 0.10.35 syntax (with extraneous backslashes)
> to 0.10.37 syntax.

Hmmm, but that introduces more confusion for CJK translations, as any .po
files has to be submitted 2 times, one with extra '\' and one without.
One never knows what the version of gettext maintainer is using.....

Abel Cheung