Re: [poedit-users] Source code in Windows-1250 codepage. Nothing works!

Hi,

Robert Lucencic wrote:
> I'm having serious problem translating from one Windows-1250
> language, to another Windows-1250 language. It seems that MSGID's
> cannot contain special characters from such languages. Is it so?

No.

> And why can't I choose Windows-1250 as a source codepage? 

You can.

> Not to 
> mention that poEdit would not update catalog file (from sources) if
> it detects Windows-1250 *anywhere* in PO file.

Does "anywhere" mean the single place where the charset is set? 
Anyway, this is not true either: it does _warn_ you that you're doing 
something that is bad idea, but the .mo file _is_ created.

> 11:18:53: msgmerge:
> C:\DOCUME~1\robert\LOCALS~1\Temp\poe2745.tmp\input.po: warning:
> Charset "windows-1250" is not a portable encoding name. 11:18:53:
> Message conversion to user's charset might not work.
> 11:18:53: msgmerge: present charset "windows-1250" is not a
> portable encoding name
> 11:18:53: Entries in the catalog are probably incorrect.
> 11:18:53: Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for
> details.
>
> ???

??? msgmerge tells you _exactly_ what the problem is above. The fix is 
very simple: change catalog's charset to something portable, e.g. 
UTF-8.

Regards,
Vaclav

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