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

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-12-18 klockan 20.39 skrev Pablo Saratxaga:
> > Understood, but the problem is that it doesn't work now. The msgid
> > cannot be in UTF-8, since xgettext won't allow it. Thus, even if we do
> > use UTF-8 for all msgstrs now (which we do), the msgid cannot be in
> > UTF-8. At least not until gettext is fixed and we decide to require this
> > fixed version of gettext.
> 
> Ah, I thought the problem was with msgfmt.
> It used to work with previous versions of xgettext.

Yes, I know. This used to be a problem, since some developers were using
older versions of gettext and insisted that including non-ASCII
characters in msgids worked, which only was true for the older
gettexts...


> Note that I tried with -E option, and it works (the non-ascii bytes
> being written in octal notation); so there is a workaround replacing
> "xgettext" by "xgettext -E" in Makefiles.

Ok. intltool-update probably also needs to be patched. Could you please
add your findings to the http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99005
intltool bug report? Thanks.


Christian