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Re: [glibc x gettext] Bad po files ?
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:47:35PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
>
> > Andreas Jaeger writes:
> > > "Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego)" <rodrigob@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> >
> > > > Looks like zh_TW.po is also buggy. The error follow, both from msgfmt and
> > > > iconv:
> > > >
> > > > $ msgfmt zh_TW.po -o zh_TW.gmo
> > > > zh_TW.po:563: invalid control sequence
> > > > zh_TW.po:564: end-of-line within string
> >
> > This is a different issue: It's a PO file which has extraneous
> > backslashes (in particular, after the chinese word "allowed").
> > That particular ideograph has a second byte == 0x5C in the big5
> > encoding. Such extraneous backslashes were needed with earlier
> > (non-multibyte aware) versions of msgfmt.
> >
> > The fix is to change 0x5C 0x5C into 0x5C in those lines where msgfmt
> > complains.
>
> Here's a patch. Will this work with gettext 0.10.35 or do we require
> 0.10.36 now?
>
> Shall I commit this?
Works perfectly with gettext 0.10.36 ...
Tkx Andreas
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