Re: [poedit-users] Problem with utf-8 encoding

Hi,

David Bolen wrote:
> to explain failing to handle even a pure-ASCII case.  One reference
> commented about the lack of a BOM, but to my understanding a BOM is
> not required for UTF-8 files

In fact it _shouldn't_ be present in UTF-8 files, because it doesn't 
makes sense for UTF-{8,7}. The comment was the other way around: I 
suspected there was some BOM mark that confused conversion...

> (although I did try manually adding 
> one to no effect - a UTF-8 bom as the 8-bit characters
> 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF). Another person had a reference to upgrading their
> Win2K system to SP4 and the problem going away - I happen to be on
> SP3 but can't do a full system upgrade at the moment to test that
> theory.

I _think_ I found the underlying bug in wxWidgets -- it 
unconditionally uses MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, which is documented as 
available on (w2k-sp4 or xp)+ and UTF-8 is documented as having only 
this flag allowed, so presumably older versions of Windows check if 
the flag is 0 and fail...

> I also find that attempting to create a brand new catalog from
> within poEdit itself (and indicating that it should be UTF-8)
> generates errors on any attempt to save the catalog of (filename
> shortened to <file>):
>
> 19:38:10: msgfmt: <file>.po: warning: PO file header missing or
> invalid 19:38:10:                    warning: charset conversion
> will not work 19:38:10: msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

I don't see this either -- so either it's specific to w2k-sp3 as well 
or I need more detailed instructions on reproducing it.

Regards,
Vaclav

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