big5 and gettext

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

Mmh, I'm thinking maybe there is a solution to the big5 encoding problem...

what if the po files are stored in the new format (that is, in real big5);
and have a small script that checks the version of gettext, and
eventually, if an old version is present, rewrites the zh_TW*.po file.

The problem is with the '\' that are part of big5 encoding; they always
are the second byte of a two byte char which first byte is an 8bit one;
so if there is a perl guru to do a one liner to convert all X\ to X\\
(with X being any 8bit char) of a po file, then including that script
could allow the sources to be build on systems with old gettext
(it will require perl, but it is required for xml-i18n-tools anyway)

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Pablo Saratxaga

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