Re: GNOME CVS (silent): bug-buddy pablo

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:03:47PM -0400, jacob berkman wrote:
> On 21 May 2001 12:10:03 -0400, Gnome CVS User wrote:
 
> > CVSROOT:	/cvs/gnome
> > Module name:	bug-buddy
> > Changes by:	pablo	01/05/21 12:10:03
> > 
> > Modified files:
> > 	po             : ChangeLog zh_CN.GB2312.po zh_TW.Big5.po 
> > 
> > Log message:
> > fixed multibyte
> 
> does this mean that we should be able to distcheck with gettext 0.10.37?

Yes, the new gettext finally checks the used encoding, which means there
is no longer savage cutting of lines at the wrong boundary (that had
very bad effects on CJK and utf-8 translations...).

Note that the only one that is problematic is Big5 encoding, as it uses
the '\' char; so with previous gettext you needed to escape it (that is,
write '\\') with the bad effect of the po files being unreadable (they
are not real big5). with the new gettext you can write real big5; however
such a po file will yield errors with old gettext (as you can have a thing
like ....\" at the end).

The other changes are good for previous gettext too; i just now have the
possibility to check for such errors (I'm also checking for wrong headers,
wrong charsets, and syntax errors (like %S instead of %s and the like).


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Pablo Saratxaga

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