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Re: [glibc x gettext] Bad po files ?


On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:33:42PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > iconv: illegal input sequence at position 654
> > I know I'm not in a very ood position to give any sugestions, but wouldn't it
> > be better just to remove these two po files til they are fixed ?
> 
> I get the same error with msgfmt - but why is iconv not complaining
> with utf-8?
> 
> gromit:/usr/src/cvs/libc/po:[0]$ iconv -f big5 -t utf-8 < zh_TW.po > /dev/null
> gromit:/usr/src/cvs/libc/po:[0]$ iconv -f big5 -t iso-8859-1 < zh_TW.po > /dev/null
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 830
> gromit:/usr/src/cvs/libc/po:[1]$ 

Couse maybe the problem is not where we think it is ?
I don't know enough about charsets at all to make an educated guess. Sorry.
I only know that zh_TW.po from glibc is not the only one that is giving me
problems. zh_TW from other applications (Xconfigurator, xchat, WindowMaker
etc).

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