Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile: Solaris msgfmt and it.po

[Holger]

At 19:01 14.08.03 +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
>On Thu 14 Aug 2003 (17:49 +0200), Holger wrote:
>> I've built again on Solaris and it fails with:
>> 
>> it.po:12432: end-of-line within string
>> found 1 fatal errors
>> gmake[3]: *** [it.gmo] Error 1
>> 
>> The line concerned is this (the 2nd):
>> msgid "Depth"
>> msgstr "Profondit\xe0"
>> 
>> \xe0 is an ? which seems to be a line-feed one line up. Changing it to 
>> "Profondita" ran well, but is of course not correct Italian.
>
>\xe0 is an a with an accent acute (or maybe it's an accent grave).

The question mark in my post that you quoted was exactly this (an a with
accent grave). Your mailer doesn't seem to support this.

>This should not be generating an error, as there should be support for
>this character notation.

I didn't scan the file for other occurrences. After all it was the only
thing causing an error.

>This seems strange, how does the Solaris
>version expect to receive characters outside the 0..127 range? Note

I don't know. This is the first time I got in touch with gettext. I
couldn't even find out a version number. msgfmt didn't like any of -v, -V
nor --version.

>that as it.po is extended, previous \xnn sequences have been replaced
>with the literal character, so the processing needs to deal with both 
>8bit characters and hex escaped characters.

Does anybody know of version issues?

Regards,

        Holger