Re: msgid only in ascii

[Bruno Haible]

Černoevič Michal wrote:
> I couldn't help but write you about the conception mistake in the late
> versions of gettext. The idea, that the msgid must be in ascii code sounds
> strange to me, because gettext is universal and I usually write in
> iso-8859-2 and translate my programs into english or ... and not vice
> versa. What shall I do?

I'd recommend that you upgrade to gettext 0.12.1. Non-ASCII msgids are
supported since gettext 0.12.

> I have to use an old version, for example 0.10.35 is quite good.

0.10.35 is unusable for Asian languages.

> Such limitations seems to me harmful, when you aren't  English.

We introduced this limitation from 0.10.36 to 0.11.5, because at that
time the xgettext program and associated tools did not support non-ASCII
msgids - they produced incorrect POT files for these cases - and the
various PO file editors were not ready for UTF-8 encoded PO files.

Bruno