non-ASCII strings revisited

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Hi All,

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I read over the thread "Non-ascii translatable strings" but I have a 
slightly different question.  Let me begin with some shell output:

dtb otter:~/code/gok-clean/gok/po> intltool-update --gettext-package gok 
--pot --verbose
Wrote ../automatic-scanning.xml.in.h
Wrote ../char-frequency.xml.in.h
Wrote ../direct-selection.xml.in.h
Wrote ../dwell-selection.xml.in.h
Wrote ../gok-controls.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../gok-with-references.schemas.in.h
Wrote ../gok.desktop.in.h
Wrote ../gok.glade2.h
Wrote ../inverse-scanning.xml.in.h
Wrote ../singlekey-automatic-scanning.xml.in.h
Wrote ../singlekey-inverse-scanning.xml.in.h
Wrote ../directed.xml.in.h
Wrote ../hide.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../launcher.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../main.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../mouse.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../move-resize.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../quit.kbd.in.h
Wrote ../text-operations.kbd.in.h
Building gok.pot...
Running /usr/bin/xgettext --add-comments --directory=.. --output=gok.pot 
--files-from=./POTFILES.in.temp --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword=U_ 
--from-code=ASCII
Removing generated header (.h) files...done.
ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file because there is 
non-ASCII
       string marked for translation. Please make sure that all strings 
marked
       for translation are in uniform encoding (say UTF-8), then 
*prepend* the
       following line to POTFILES.in and rerun intltool-update:

           [encoding: UTF-8]

dtb otter:~/code/gok-clean/gok/po>


Okay, so how do I go about making sure all the strings are in uniform 
encoding?  What am I looking for?  (there are lots of strings)

cheers,

David