Re: Yelp stuff

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 12:49, Christian Rose wrote:
> 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.

How much does gettext have to do with this?  This particular strings are
merged into an XML file and extracted in XSLT.  Does gettext get messed
up just by the presence of the UTF-8?  I really don't know what I should
be doing here.  As it is, those locales are just broken in Yelp.

--
Shaun