Re: gnome-applets-locations broken on l10n-status

[Ãsmund SkjÃveland <aasmunds fys uio no>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> All (?) PO and POT files for gnome-applets-locations are broken on
> l10n-status.gnome-org it seems. I don't know the exact reason, but
> apparently, the POT files provided on the website are not in UTF-8 but
> in ISO-8859-1/15/something (while their headers claim the file is in
> UTF-8).
>
> http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.14/PO/gnome-applets-locations.HEAD.pot
>
> (The first offending thing seems to be ChambÃry). This results in weird
> behavior in msgmerge, which has resulted in breaking all (?) non-ASCII
> PO files also.
>
> I am investigating this, but would someone who knows more about intltool
> and stuff take a look? Locations.xml.in looks to be valid UTF-8 and XML
> (as XML doesn't require an encoding declaration if the file is in
> UTF-8).

The offending ISO-8859-1 string is in a translator comment, which I 
assume the XML parser ignores, and therefore there's no error in the XML 
file. So the problem is that gettext isn't clever enough to ignore 
invalid characters in comments?

The second offence, "BÃle-Mulhouse-Fribourg", is also in ISO-8859-1 and 
is in a comment. The next offending string is in the same comment: 
"Basel-MÃlhausen-Freiburg"

Next: "BÃvetchÃn", "BelgiÃ", "LÃbeck", "Saint-Ãtienne", "BrÃnn", 
"BrÃssel, FlÃmish-", "SÃo Paulo", "TchalerwÃ", "Baden-WÃrttemberg", 
"KÃln", "KÃbenhavn", and it no doubt goes on and on.

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Ãsmund SkjÃveland {
   aasmunds fys uio no
}

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