Re: [poedit-users] Character encoding issue

There is obviously something going on here, and I don't care who's at fault so no need to be defensive. Maybe we can try to figure some of this out as a group. Here's the text of what's in my PO file, so I would appreciate if some of you could try it and see what you get. In my MO file
the funny e character shows up as é.

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: \n"
"PO-Revision-Date: \n"
"Last-Translator: \n"
"Language-Team: \n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: utf-8\n"
"X-Poedit-Language: French\n"
"X-Poedit-Country: FRANCE\n"

msgid "first_name"
msgstr "prénom"

msgid "last_name"
msgstr "nom de famille"



--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [poedit-users] Character encoding issue
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 12:57 AM
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:29 +0100, Johannes Mario Ringheim
> wrote:
> > Note that the solution was to open and save it in
> poedit on another 
> > operating system (Ubuntu), as opposed to the one I was
> using (Mandriva). 
> 
> Doubtful. You did something (as usual, unspecified) that
> did something
> (unspecified) to the files. By coincidence, you did that on
> another
> Linux distribution (which is not "different operating
> system" by any
> stretch of imagination, BTW) and you interpret this
> correlation as
> causation. 
> 
> > To me it seems to be an issue with how poedit
> interacts with encoding on 
> > different operating system, but as I don't have
> the insight I can only 
> > speculate..
> 
> The issue is precisely that -- lack of insight into
> encodings, Unicode
> and text handling in computers. Now that's perfectly
> fine, this is not
> required knowledge for a *translator*. Poedit lets you just
> save the
> file and be done with it if you don't understand
> encodings.
> 
> If, on the other hand, you are a programmer who uses or
> further
> processes .po files obtained from translators (be they
> written in Poedit
> or not), then having a firm grasp of these issues is a
> basic competency
> requirement.
> 
> FWIW, none of the posts on this topic ever showed any
> evidence of actual
> problem with the .po files Poedit creates (such as a
> Poedit-caused
> mismatch between the encoding claimed in file's headers
> and the one
> really used -- now that would be a serious bug).
> 
> Regards,
> Vaclav
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