Re: Promoting greater integration between developers/writers/I18N :)

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Christian Rose <menthos@gnome.org> writes:

> This problem seems to be different. Non-ASCII characters are of course
> allowed in translations in po files, the problem is that they aren't in
> general allowed in the original messages due to technical issues with
> gettext. Encoding them with escape references doesn't help, as they
> still are treated as their proper character value by gettext. This
> problem needs solving at the tool level, and it looks like there has to
> be changes made to intltool and that we need to depend on newer versions
> of both intltool and GNU gettext.

In the meantime, one way to work around the problem is to use a %s
replacement as in

  #define COPYRIGHT_SYMBOL "\xc2\xa9"

  replace("Copyright %s 938 Harald Bluetooth", COPYRIGHT_SYMBOL)

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Ole Laursen
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