Re: [poedit-users] Problems with special characters

Vaclav Slavik skreiv:
>> Inspecting the .mo file with gedit, I find for example that "å" has 
>> turned into "Ã¥", and any other special character scrambled likewise. 
> 
> They're not "scrambled", they are encoded using UTF-8 -- which as you
> admit below is exactly what you asked Poedit to do.

First and foremost I of course meant "Inspecting the .po file", not .mo.

Second, any other utf-8 textfile displays special characters like "å" 
correctly in gedit (meaning "å" as "å", not "Ã¥"). When I write an "å" 
in poedit I expect it to be "å" in the utf-8 encoded po file. It 
appearently is not, so I get the idea that something is wrong.

> No, it doesn't make them "correct", it makes them encoded using a
> different encoding. You do understand what an encoding is, right?
> Because encodings apparently matter to your web app, so it's kind of
> important to understand them and not, say, try (and as I suspect, mix)
> different encodings at random.

I've used utf-8 on the website, as mentioned in my reply to Olivier. 
Otherwise the site works fine and displays special characters correctly.

Now, I tried to do the same process in Ubuntu 8.04 which resides on my 
other machine. I opened the po-file, did some minor edits and saved, and 
guess what? Gedit now displays special characters in po-file correctly. 
But guess again: Is the website displaying it correctly? Nope. This 
strengthens your theory that the problem is on my site. I will 
investigate this further, now that the poedit anomaly is sorted out 
(well, kinda, anyway).

I'm not quite sure what to think of this, if someone does please cry out ;)

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