GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 101796
gnome-panel msgids includes non-ASCII characters breaking gettext
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The files applets/gen_util/clock.c, applets/gen_util/mailcheck.c, and gnome-panel/menu.c contains non-ascii characters that causes many warnings from xgettext when I update the sv.po (which is in UTF-8) with "intltool-update sv": xgettext: warning: The following msgid contains non-ASCII characters. This will cause problems to translators who use a character encoding different from yours. Consider using a pure ASCII msgid instead. Copyright © 1998-2002 Free Software Foundation. Inc. xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: warning: The following msgid contains non-ASCII characters. This will cause problems to translators who use a character encoding different from yours. Consider using a pure ASCII msgid instead. Copyright © 1998-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: warning: The following msgid contains non-ASCII characters. This will cause problems to translators who use a character encoding different from yours. Consider using a pure ASCII msgid instead. Copyright © 1997-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence Also, the character (©) will not be displayed in the msgid in the po file, it will simply be an extra space. Thus, this message cannot be translated correctly as it is, and causes the above warnings with gettext 0.11 and newer, and possibly also other gettexts.
I could add something about proposed solutions. Either 1) go back to using (C) in the msgids, or 2) un-mark these messages for translation (if you are sure they don't need localization). Perhaps 2) is the best alternative. I don't know why these would need localization as they are written now.
Thanks Christian. I agree, I don't see why these would need to be translated. 2002-12-23 Mark McLoughlin <mark@skynet.ie> * menu.c: (about_cb): remove translations marks from around the copyright notices for the about dialogs. The container non-ascii characters and no longer need to be translated anyhow. Fixes #101796. 2002-12-23 Mark McLoughlin <mark@skynet.ie> * clock.c: (display_about_dialog): * mailcheck.c: (mailcheck_about): remove translations marks from around the copyright notices for the about dialogs. The container non-ascii characters and no longer need to be translated anyhow. Fixes #101796.