Re: I18n, UTF-8, and Linux

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From: Gil Glass <gil.glass@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Thank you very much!  That seems to have done the trick!!  I was only 
> setting the locale for LC_MESSAGES.  Changing it to LC_ALL worked.
> 
> Also, I found that, if I left the escape sequences in the .po file 
> (\xC3\xA1), then it didn't work.  However, if I entered the "raw UTF-8" 
> directly by typing ALT+0195 (0xC3) and ALT+0161 (0xA1), it did work.  I am 
> assuming that this is what you mean by raw UTF-8 below.  While my editor 
> is not actually UTF-8 aware, it does let me enter non-ASCII 8-bit 
> characters by holding down <ALT> and typing the value in decimal.  Yes, I 
> hang my head in shame as I admit that I'm editing on a Windows PC.  :-)

1.) "ma\xC3\xB1ana" can be broken into "ma\xC3\xB1" "ana" (in real C code;
I don't know if this works in .po files)

2.) Notepad can read/edit/write UTF-8 ;-)

Regards,
David



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