more Fun With Encoding

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Sun Oct 9 17:29:26 EDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:46 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: 
> Indeed, xgettext does seem to correctly parse our scheme files.
> 
> >From looking at xgettext's NEWS file, I gather that this has been
> supported since Version 0.14.2 - February 2005.  IIUC, the only people
> who need to run xgettext are the packagers, i.e. the developers.  So,
> is this version sufficiently old enough that people are in favor of
> dropping our "use perl to collect Scheme strings into C file so
> xgettext can find them"-trick?

FC3, our stated base distribution, only has 0.14.1 and I haven't see a
0.14.2 update for it at any of the usual package sites.

> > But, I'm probably going to put this on hold long enough to send out
> > some budgeting patches...
> 
> BTW, I'm ready to send these out.  But I don't want to send more than
> can be handled in the short term.  How many is that?

What do you have?  I just wrapped up all my gconf work so I can take
some time to work through your patches.

David




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