GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118960
gnome-pim msgid includes non-ASCII character breaking gettext
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The file gncal/calendar-week.c contains a non-ascii character 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. %s ‒ %s xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence 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.
msgids always have to be proper ASCII. For further reference, see http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#use-ascii.