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Re: Chinese big5 encoding and PO files



On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:28:57AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Denis Barbier:
> 
> > This is why I suggest to insert backslashes in MO files and not PO files.
> > Those backslashes will be removed when processed through WML.
> 
> The thing is that there are no backslashes, only 0x5C bytes. Those are
> very different, although they might look very similar at a first
> look...

Err, ascii(7) tells me that 0x5C *is* a backslash.

> It's possible that one can apply workarounds for this, but it is much
> better to fix the tools that read the files to handle them properly.
> Gettext should already be encoding safe, shouldn't it?

It is, and I will fix WML too.

Could you please have a look at chinese/po/others.zh.po and tell me
what to do with Subscribe/Unsubscribe translations?

Denis



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