Re: Yelp stuff

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

tis 2004-08-03 klockan 19.03 skrev Shaun McCance:
> (CC me on replies please.  I'm not on gnome-i18n.)
> 
> So Yelp had four strings marked for translation in l10n.xml.in that were
> just one-character entities: “ ” ‘ ’.  Most of
> the translations continued using entities for these.  But it seems that
> when intltool merges the translations in from the po files, it escapes
> everything.  So instead of having “ we have &8220;, which is
> not at all what's wanted.
> 
> I've decided to trust that people will have non-braindead editors and
> just put the UTF-8 characters in l10n.xml.in instead.

This will work only with intltool >= 0.27 and GNU gettext >= 0.12.
Older gettexts didn't like non-ASCII data in msgids at all.

Whether other gettext implementations allow non-ASCII msgids at all I
don't know.


Christian