more Fun With Encoding

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:39:10PM -0400, David Hampton wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:58 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > Well, it helps, but it doesn't explain the error.
> > Let me read the gettext manual and get back to you.
> 
> Would help if I had read the error message myself.  First question would
> be what exactly is xgettext complaining about.
> 
> > $ head -2 ../intl-scm/guile-strings.c
> > /* src/business/business-reports/easy-invoice.scm */
> > _("Invoice Number")
> 
> I don't see any non-ASCII characters there.

exactly what I thought.

> 
> xgettext appears to now support finding strings in Lisp files.  Would be
> worth checking to see if this works with the scheme variant of lisp.  I
> would expect it does.  If so we could dump the intl-scm directory
> altogether and use xgettext directly.

I noticed that, too.  And that's what I was planning on looking into.
But, I'm probably going to put this on hold long enough to send out
some budgeting patches...

-chris

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> David
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