more Fun With Encoding

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:01:27PM -0400, David Hampton wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 16:37 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > I'm not really sure how to fix this.
> > 
> > guile-strings.c is generated by xgettext.scm.
> > 
> > I don't think there's any re-encoding going on.
> 
> Re-encoding?

see?  I don't even know what I'm talking about.

> 
> AFAIK the only reason to have the guile-strings.c file is that the
> standard tools that build the .po files don't know how to find strings
> in a scheme file.  The xgettext.scm file handles that.

standard tools =? xgettext

> 
> All scheme code that displays strings must call the gettext routines to
> perform locale translation before displaying the string.  This
> requirement is no different than in C code.
> 
> Does this answer your question?

Well, it helps, but it doesn't explain the error.
Let me read the gettext manual and get back to you.

-chris

> 
> David
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