Hi,
Denis Barbier wrote (19 Aug 2010 14:47:53 GMT) :
> I forgot to get back to you about this issue, sorry.
> As mentioned above, xgettext prints "8bit\n" instead of
"ENCODING\n"
> for a very long time, thus I decided to let po4a do the same. This
> change has been committed and will be shipped in po4a 0.40.1 (released
> on 2010-08-25). Can you please check current CVS and tell us quickly
> if this change causes some trouble for you?
> See
https://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=30267 you only need the po4a module.
A quick test seems not to expose the reported bug anymore.
Thanks to sorting out this, sorry to reply this late... I hope it will
nevertheless make it for Squeeze.