Re: [Po4a-devel]Non breaking spaces in man pages
Hello Jordi,
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:00:09AM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
I was just gettextizing some man pages and I've noticed a problem
when
trying to mix several po files:
$ msgcat *.po
file1.po:19:10: invalid multibyte sequence
msgcat: found 1 fatal error
I've found that there was a strange character in that position, and it
seems it's the equivalent of man page's "\ ". What's its meaning?
Why is
it handled with this strange byte? It seems we're generating non-compliant
po files :S
Yes, "\ " are changed to 0xA0. Maybe this should be done only if the
charset used support this character (at least UTF-8 & latin-1).
However, I'm surprised it generate an error. I'm only getting warnings
(sometimes annoying):
warning: The following msgid contains non-ASCII characters.
This will cause problems to translators who use a character encoding
different from yours. Consider using a pure ASCII msgid instead.
(There is no warning when the charset is UTF-8)
Can you point me to the man page you gettextized (I will need the original
and translated man page)?
The "invalid multibyte sequence" make me think it is an UTF-8 error, and
non-breaking spaces are not multibytes.
Kind Regards,
--
Nekral