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Bug 115441 - intltool-update chokes on UTF-8 strings
intltool-update chokes on UTF-8 strings
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-games-superseded
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnibbles
2.3.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Games maintainers
GNOME Games maintainers
Depends on: 99005
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-18 11:38 UTC by Jordi Mallach
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jordi Mallach 2003-06-18 11:38:26 UTC 
65554:jordi@nubol:.../gnome/2.4/gnome-games/po$ intltool-update ca
xgettext: Non-ASCII string at gnibbles/preferences.c:517.
Please specify the source encoding through --from-code.
WARNING: It seems that none of the files in POTFILES.in contain marked strings

It appears the UTF-8 character added to gnome-games recently breaks if
(guessing) the translator is using UTF-8. Can you do something about it? A
suggestion is to break the message into various substrings and not mark for
translation the offending utf stuff, but I don't know if this will add
translating problems for some languages. I'm Cc:ing menthos to be sure.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2003-06-18 21:05:08 UTC 
Ok, I just removed the UTF-8 multiplication symbol and replaced it
with an 'x'.  I think Callum is working on a way to use these symbols.
Comment 2 Abel Cheung 2003-08-11 21:48:05 UTC 
With intltool 0.27 UTF-8 string is supported, so the multiplication
symbol can be used. The only point to note is that, module maintainer
have to install GNU gettext >= 0.12 in order to extract UTF-8 strings.
Comment 3 Jordi Mallach 2003-08-26 19:21:04 UTC 
I suggest gnome-games adds

AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.27.2])

to its configure.in and starts using UTF-8 symbols if it requires it.
Comment 4 Callum McKenzie 2003-10-21 06:38:36 UTC 
I've now made the recommended changes in CVS. If this doesn't work
then I'm sure some translators will scream at me in a few days.