Re: [debian-devel] Packages still using old-style debconf
>--[Tollef Fog Heen]--<tfheen@raw.no>
> Or they don't want to break their packages because of gettext having a
> braindead design:
> xgettext: Non-ASCII string at ../wnorwegian.templates.in:5.
> Please specify the source encoding through --from-code.
Actually it's not a broken design; your text is broken. The strings fed to
gettext are what is returned in locale C; however, locale C uses ASCII and
not latin1 or anything else. So you indeed have to transliterate the stuff
you want to have - and make a en_US translation with the untransliterated
characters.
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