Re: [poedit-users] po files encoding?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:18:29 +0100
Niki Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
The first thing I'd check is if the file's encoding is the same as the
one declared in "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n" header.
It is located at the top of the file (in the first 15 - 20 lines), so
there is no way to miss it. :)

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