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Bug 119008 - mlview msgid includes non-ASCII character breaking gettext
mlview msgid includes non-ASCII character breaking gettext
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: mlview
Classification: Other
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Gaël Chamoulaud
Gaël Chamoulaud
Depends on: 99005
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-03 16:02 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Christian Rose 2003-08-03 16:02:10 UTC 
The file src/mlview-app.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.
                   Copyright © 2002-2003 Dodji Seketeli, Gael Chamoulaud
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.
Comment 1 Christian Rose 2003-08-05 19:41:03 UTC 
This bug does not necessarily depend on bug 99005 -- the actual message, 

  "Copyright © 2002-2003 Dodji Seketeli, Gael Chamoulaud"

doesn't seem to require any translation, so it should probably just be
unmarked for translation.
Comment 2 Gaël Chamoulaud 2003-08-05 20:06:44 UTC 
Yes, you're right !
Thanks for you help :)
Comment 3 Christian Rose 2003-08-05 20:15:21 UTC 
Why is this NEEDINFO?
Comment 4 Gaël Chamoulaud 2003-08-05 20:20:30 UTC 
It's an error, sorry !
the bug is fixed now