[glibc x gettext] Bad po files ?

Bruno Haible haible@ilog.fr
Thu Apr 12 12:42:00 GMT 2001


> msgfmt -o el.mo el.po
> el.po:934: invalid multibyte sequence
> el.po:935: invalid multibyte sequence
> el.po:2879: invalid multibyte sequence

It's a problem with the el.po file. It advertises that it uses
iso-8859-7 encoding, but it has invalid bytes:

$ iconv -f iso-8859-7 -t utf-8 < el.po > /dev/null 
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 29530

That po file would produce garbage output on the users' screen (both
in ISO-8859-7 and UTF-8 locales).

Bruno



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