Re: A problem with xgettext

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,
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> /usr/bin/xgettext: warning: The following msgid contains non-ASCII
> characters. This will cause problems to translators who use a character
> encoding different from yours. Consider using a pure ASCII msgid instead.
>                        Cédric Auger (address@hidden) : Programming
> /usr/bin/xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence
> /usr/bin/xgettext: invalid multibyte sequence
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>
> xgettext don't seems to like accents. Is that right ?

In version 0.11.x, right. In xgettext version 0.12.1, it now supports msgid
strings in other encodings than ASCII.  It has a new option --from-code that
specifies the encoding of the source files. The resulting POT files are then
UTF-8 encoded.

Bruno