Re: gnome-core gettext errors

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, David F. Newman wrote:

> I was in the process of building gnome-core 1.4.0.4 on Solaris 7
> and I'm running into a little problem in the po directory.  The files
> zh_TW.Big5.po and zh_CN.GB2312.po seem to have errors.  I am using
> gettext 0.10.40 configured with libiconv.  Are these errors in the po
> files themselves or am I missing something?  I am new to i18n with
> gettext.
> 
> /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o zh_TW.Big5.mo zh_TW.Big5.po
> zh_TW.Big5.po:114: invalid control sequence
[.......]
> found 17 fatal errors

Gnome-desktop-devel is definitely the wrong list to ask such a question
-- you should ask it in gnome-i18n instead. Anyway, here's the answer:

The handling of chinese byte sequence is different between gettext
<= 0.10.35 and >= 0.10.36. The copy of zh_TW.Big5.po and zh_CN.GB2312.po
distributed with gnome-core 1.4.0.4 are checked against gettext 0.10.35,
which is considered as incompatible with the version of gettext you're
using.

You're suggested to grab the corresponding translation files from CVS.
If you're unable/unwilling to do so, then perhaps it's better to wait
for another release of gnome-core.

Abel