[Gambas-user] Warning! Translation files may be corrupted

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Sun Jan 4 13:08:39 CET 2009


On dimanche 4 janvier 2009, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> I have just detected that the IDE is randomly corrupting non-ASCII
> characters in the translation files.
>
> The suspect is the "msgmerge" GNU gettext tool, version 0.17 provided with
> Mandriva 2009. This command is used by the IDE each time it opens a
> translation file, for merging old translations with the new strings to be
> translated. At this time, apparently, UTF-8 characters are sometimes lost
> and replaced by another encoding. Strange...
>
> Please check your version, and keep a copy of your translation files, or
> you will have a bad surprise like me!
>
> Regards,

Finally msgmerge is not in cause but myself (I apolog... Ouch!).

The fix is in revision #1780.

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Benoit Minisini




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