Bug 237786

Summary:	xgettext doesn't handle non-ASCII source strings correctly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Component:	gettext	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
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Description Nils Philippsen 2007-04-25 13:41:30 UTC

Description of problem:

When getting messages from one of my UTF-8 python files, xgettext apparently
doesn't use UTF-8, but some ISO encoding when dealing with a copyright sign:

This is the msgid as put into system-config-services.pot by xgettext:

msgid ""
"System Services Configuration Tool VERSION\n"
" Copyright Â© 2002-2006 Red Hat, Inc.\n"
[...]

This is how it should be:

msgid ""
"System Services Configuration Tool VERSION\n"
" Copyright © 2002-2006 Red Hat, Inc.\n"
[...]


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gettext-0.14.6-4.fc6

How reproducible:
Easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check out system-config-services from elvis
2. cd po/
3. make update-po

or:

1. create small python file (marked with "coding: utf-8") with a translatable
copyright sign
2. run "xgettext --default-domain=system-config-services --add-comments
--from-code=utf-8 --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ ..." on that file
  
Actual results:
See above ex.1

Expected results:
See above ex.2

Additional info:
I just made a test build of 0.16.1 from Rawhide and with its xgettext the UTF-8
copyright sign was left intact.

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2007-04-25 14:14:14 UTC

See bug #232809 for background.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2007-04-30 08:09:39 UTC

Hmm I see: guess it is necessary to track down in which version of gettext
this was fixed.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2007-07-19 05:22:17 UTC

I doubt there will be a chance to fix this before fc7 moves to EOL,
unless someone comes with a patch.  So closing for now.

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2007-07-19 05:23:23 UTC

(Just for the record, F7 already ships with the newer 0.16.1.)