Re: 'make update-po' breaks multibyte .po file

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

Den 02 Mar 2001 04:05:54 +0900, skrev Yukihiro Nakai:
> Hello, I'm new to here.
> 
> msgmerge in gettext-0.10.35 doesn't recognize multibyte,
> so it breaks the multibyte chars when it rebreaks long lines.
> 
> (AA, BB: multibyte chars)
> 
> msgstr "...........AABBAABBAABB"
> 
> will be
> 
> msgstr ""
> "..............AAB"
> "BAABBAABB"
> 
> And oops. Sometimes it may be unable to compile after msgmerge.
> 
> So, I think we should someting like this:
> 
> - Don't msgmerge. Especially, before the new release.
> - Use a patch I append here. (But it is just for EUC-JP...)


Is there any reason why this patch shouldn't be in gettext proper?
You know you work for the same company that maintains it, right? ;-)

Cheers
Kjartan