Bugs item #301026, was opened at 2004-11-06 20:05 You can respond by visiting: http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410622&aid=301... Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Yves Rütschlé (yves-guest) Assigned to: Jordi Vilalta (jvprat-guest) Summary: po4a-update eats characters not in charset without asking Initial Comment: If you translate a PO file into some language using iso8859-1, but forget to precise the charset in the header of the PO file, and don't give the charset to po4a-update either, then po4a-update proceeds to remove all accentuated characters from the file. I am not sure what the best way to handle this would be; presumably, one could do some heuristic ("there are many strange characters in there, probably this isn't ascii") and ask for confirmation that you do actually want to filter out strange characters. Fact is, most of the time you won't want to. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-11-12 16:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11062 A related problem: when the master document's charset is not ascii, po4a-updatepo seems to happily ignore the PO's charset specification and change it (to UTF-8 in my case, which I am not sure where it comes from, as I think the input document was iso-8859-1 just like the PO), along with all the characters in the PO. In other words, po4a-update silently: - changes the charset I have specified in the PO - changes all the non-ascii characters in some way ("in some way", because I don't think it ended up in UTF-8 either). I'm so in love with French accents right now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410622&aid=301...