Re: msgmerge problem

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

On 6/19/06, Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org> wrote:

Hi Fernando,

У пон, 19. 06 2006. у 14:26 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía пише:
> #: src/interface.c:340
> msgid "Vendor"
> msgstr "Prodavaè"

File is most likely encoded as ISO-8859-2.  Try passing it through iconv
first:

$ iconv -f ISO-8859-2 -t UTF-8 <hr.po >hr2.po && mv hr2.po hr.po

You have made me really happy! :)
That worked. Just a follow up question: The enconding conversion changed some characters ( e.g. the last vocal now appers to be a "c" instead of a extrange "e") is this normal?

And what to do if I face the same problem again? Should I change the encoding in the file's header or should I reencode with iconv? What is the difference?

Many thanks also to Christian!
 

Or, simply enter charset=ISO-8859-2 in the header field (though, I'd
recommend using UTF-8 for all languages in Gtk+-based programs).

Cheers,
Danilo