[poedit-users] po files encoding?

Hi,

I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a Linux user 
(Slackware 10.2). 

I want to translate the Sweep Audio Editor into french. I gave it a try (just 
to see how it works) first with my favourite text editor (VIM), then with 
POEdit. There seems to be an encoding issue. When there are french characters 
in the text, the character and all subsequent text are lost.

1) after unzipping the source archive, po files in the po/ archive are ASCII 
encoded. 

2) My standard Slackware locale is 8859-1. 

3) I tried to edit the fr.po file and save it in utf-8 encoding. I can compile 
it OK, but when I run the program (from a terminal, to see error messages), I 
get something like: Pango warning ** invalid utf-8 string passed ....

My Linux experience (5 years so far, all kinds of distros, pure Slackware for 
the last two years) tells me that character and encoding issues are the 
worst.

Any suggestions? I'm clueless.

Niki Kovacs


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