[Freeciv-Dev] Re: GNU gettext 0.10.35 and the header entry.

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, egbert@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2001, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> 
>> In Freeciv (<http://www.freeciv.org>) all the PO header entries are
>> marked as fuzzy.  With gettext 0.10.35 this appears to have no ill
>> effects, and in fact if the entries are not marked as fuzzy then
>> the translations returned by gettext() are not correct in some
>> cases; see
> 
> This also happened with earlier versions of gettext.

Do you know anything about the particulars of this bug?  I'd be very
grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

>> and the surrounding discussion.  Since 0.10.38 is now available and
>> we'd like to take advantage of e.g. the ability to convert charsets
>> on the fly, we no longer have the option to mark the headers as
>> fuzzy.
> 
> Why not? It DOES run with "fuzzy"...

Yes, but not with full functionality.  (No automatic charset
conversion etc. etc.)

> (I myself added the "Content-..."-headers to "de.po" before your
> mail(s) as I tried the new "msgmerge" and lost all but "normal"
> ASCII signs.)

I'm not sure what you're saying; did all the strings with 8-bit
characters disappear or what?

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