Re: Bug in po-toys

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > It seems the latest version of po-toys (0.3.4) simply drops non-ASCII
> > characters when composing a new translation memory on newer Linux
> > systems (glibc 2.2.4 and gettext 0.10.38 in my case).  I.e, the msgstr
> > "_Rutnätsupplösning:" becomes "_Rutntsupplsning:" in the memory. This is
> > of course very unfortunate.
> 
> I'm very sorry about this problem.  But I warned often enough po-toys
> aren't compatible with gettext 0.10.36 and later :-(

Ok, I guess I'll have to live with not updating the memory for the time
being.


> gettext-0.11 has reached a pre-release stage; most of my hack will
> become superfluous with the advent of gettext 0.11; the new gettext
> manual will feature a short recipe how to deal with "compendia" (AKA
> "translation memory").

Oh, that's nice to hear! Great news!


> At http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/domain-gettext.html you
> can find a link from where to download the pre-release.
> 
> Hope this helps -- please ask, when there are problems with gettext
> 0.11-pre2 (but you must not use it together with po-toys).

Ok, I'll try this feature out when there are packages for my
distribution.

Thanks for the response,


Christian