lynx-dev Re: problem compiling --enable-nls

[Webmaster Jim]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:06:17PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I get this on a DEC machine on 2.8.5dev8 (sorry again if this has been
> > reported):
> > zh_TW.po:1749: illegal control sequence
> [...]
> It seems to be complaining about a backslash preceding some characters
> such as a 0xa7.  Neither GNU msgfmt or check_po complain about this
> (though my color highlighting for vile makes these cases stick out).
> What tool/version is generating this message?
> 
> The last change to this file was for dev.8 - I have incorporated the other
> po-file changes into my current patch (see ftp://invisible-island.net/temp).
> 
> -- 

It must be an old GNU msgfmt:

bash-2.05$ make -n
file=./`echo zh_TW | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH 
/usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o $file zh_TW.po

bash-2.05$ /usr/local/bin/msgfmt --version
/usr/local/bin/msgfmt - GNU gettext 0.10

bash-2.05$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jim      system     90112 Apr 14  1998 /usr/local/bin/msgfmt

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