GNU gettext - Bugs: bug #57990, msgmerge (not msgfmt) invalid...
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bug #57990: msgmerge (not msgfmt) invalid multibyte sequence for valid UTF-8 sequence
Submitter: | Sam Liddicott <samjam> | ||
Submitted: | Fri 13 Mar 2020 03:51:53 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Translator tools | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | Not a Bug |
Privacy: | Public | Assigned to: | haible |
Open/Closed: | Closed |
Mon 16 Mar 2020 05:59:49 PM UTC, comment #3: |
Bruno Haible <haible> |
Mon 16 Mar 2020 03:58:02 PM UTC, comment #2: Thanks Bruno, you definitely put your finger on the problem!
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Sam Liddicott <samjam> |
Fri 13 Mar 2020 05:58:51 PM UTC, comment #1: The reason is that your PO file has no header entry; without a header entry the character encoding is not known and is therefore assumed to be ASCII.
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Bruno Haible <haible> |
Fri 13 Mar 2020 03:51:53 PM UTC, original submission:
Using msgmerge 0.19.8.1 this simple test fails:
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Sam Liddicott <samjam> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2020-03-13 | haible | Attached File | - | Added in.po, #48592 | |
Status | None | Not a Bug | |||
Assigned to | None | haible | |||
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2020-03-13 | samjam | Attached File | - | Added x.po, #48591 |
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I tend to think that it's well enough documented:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/PO-Files.html talks about the header entry and references
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Header-Entry.html
for the details.