Re: german menu and UTF-8

Kai Sommer wrote:
> Dear list-members,
> 
> since I changed my system to UTF-8 (I recompiled the whole system under 
> Gentoo) my Fluxbox-Menu is something missing. - Some entries are broken after 
> a german "umlaut". Other entries where the "umlauts" are rewriten (ä=ae, 
> ü=ue) are OK.
> 
> Can someone explain me how I can rebuild my '
> /usr/share/fluxbox/nls/de_DE/fluxbox.cat' that it works with UTF-8 (remember I 
> will use a german menu and would translate some entries too)?
> 
> I attached my de_DE/fluxbox.cat for all people that wanna help me.
> 
> Thanks
> sokai
> 
> PS:
> The "umlauts" are working for iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15...

I submitted a solution for this problem to gentoo bugzilla ages ago but
nothing happens. It's bug no. 96106.

Quoting myself:

Easy solution (I use it): Before running the configure script execute
the following bash magic in the fluxbox source directory:

for i in `ls -d nls/*_*`; do sed -e "1s/=.*$/=UTF-8/" < $i/Translation.m
| iconv -f `head -n 1 $i/Translation.m | sed -e "s/^.*=//"` -t UTF-8 >
$i/Translation.m; done

This will convert all translations (except C) to UTF-8. Then just
compile as usual.

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Cheers,

Jan


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