[Po4a-devel]Line counting

Jordi Vilalta jvprat@wanadoo.es
Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:30:28 +0100 (CET)


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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 04:29:20PM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
>>> No problem, I'm psychologically prepared to loose my cedilla.
>>
>> Don't worry, you won't have to suffer it in silence ;)
>
> Good, so my name in the changelog can be properly written as
> R=FCtschl=E9 then ;)

Fixed. I didn't even notice what was the correct way to write it. Sorry.

>> I've just commited the new -L option for po4a-translate and po4a. This w=
ay
>> the generated documentation can be in iso8859-1 although the po files ar=
e
>> in utf-8 :)
>
> That reminds me of something else I found annoying with
> po4a-update: If you translate a PO file into some language
> using iso8859-1, but forget to precise the charset in the
> header of the PO file, and don't give the charset to
> po4a-update either, then po4a-update proceeds to remove all
> accentuated characters from the file.
>
> I am not sure what the best way to handle this would be;
> presumably, one could do some heuristic ("there are many
> strange characters in there, probably this isn't ascii") and
> ask for confirmation that you do actually want to filter out
> strange characters. Fact is, most of the time you won't want
> to.

Thanks for the advice. I don't have many time now to fix it, so it would=20
be nice if you could open a bug report about it. Thanks ;)

Regards,

Jordi Vilalta
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