Re: Bug in xgettext

[Bruno Haible]

Michael Stather wrote:
> I´m trying to extract the strings from a .cpp-file
> written with german MSVC. There are german symbols
> in it, so xgettext complains about
> "non-ASCII"-characters.However, when I
> use --from-code=iso-8859-1, xgettext stops with
> "abnormal program termination"

Hi,

This error message indicates a bug in xgettext. To enable me to
reproduce and debug this (because under Unix there is no problem),
can you please tell me which binaries of gettext and libiconv
you use (from which web site).

Thanks.

> Also, how can I see which encoding is used by a
> certain textfile.

Trial-and-error. In Germany, the most often used encodings
are ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, WINDOWS-1252 and UTF-8.

Bruno