Re: non-utf8 po files breaking the build

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@commsecure.com.au> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:58:18PM +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> [...]
>> I use emacs for all my translation work and the only cases it fails
>> for is *really* small files containing less than 20 strings or so. If
>> that is the case I just translate using some other editor and run
>> intltool-unicodify on the file before commiting.

This should not happen using recent Emacs plus recent po-mode files;
these are fom the gettext CVS:

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~eichwalk/po-compat.el.gz
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~eichwalk/po-mode.el.gz

> Off-topic, but that is just a _weird_ failure mode. "I'm sorry, sir, but
> our editor is only good for handling really big files. If you're going
> to work on trivial little things, you should use another product." :-)

:-)  But it often helps to report Emacs resp. po-mode problems to the
Emacs or the gettext maintainers.

Note, Emacs 21.2 is not a full featured UTF-8 editor; Emacs from CVS
(head) can do many a lot things more.

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