Re: Any conclusion about (C) and ©, andnon-ASCII msgid?

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-12-18 klockan 17.31 skrev German Poo Caaman~o:
> What will be the "official" position about use 
> non-ASCII msgid?
> 
> I ask, because gettext-0.11 complains about rhythmbox
> messages, it has a multibyte secuence (©) in msgid.
> 
> For me, it means that I shouldn't commit a translated
> file that no pass 'msgfmt -cv'.
> 
> I undertand the © issue, about copyright, and this
> msgid is necessary for en_US.  But if the tool is not
> ready *today* (I haven't seen debian packages, yet),
> what will be the policy about that?

The non-ASCII rhythmbox message was reported as
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101420. Possible solutions is
to either revert back to (C) or not mark the message for translation.
But it has to be solved somehow, since the current behavior breaks the
current version of gettext.


Christian