Re: [NVDA-dev] Branch nvda/main: Rev 4871: Files that have non-ascii content should declare an encoding.

[Mesar H. <mes...@gm...>]

On Sun 01/01/12,14:20, James Teh wrote:

Unfortunately xgettext on linux doesnt want to process these files 
unless the tag is there.

At the moment the NVDA translation project is using the pot files to 
automatically merge new messages, but they do not include comments for 
translators, due to pygettext. We have open tickets for moving to 
xgettext.

Since the nvda translation project automatic scripts run on linux I can 
run xgettext to provide the translation comments and merge them in. Its 
a temporary hack, until the tickets can be addressed.

> We chose to go down this path because it looks less ugly than
> explicitly defining the encoding in a comment and is consistent with
> other files in NVDA.

I know what you mean about consistancy, if you like the commit can be 
reverted, and i can commit it locally on the linux box.


Thanks.