Re: [Winmerge-translate] Puzzles about po-file-encoding and rc-file-compiling by 2.7.5.2 and 2.7.5.3

[Wei-cheng <wc...@pc...>]

Tim,

Thank you. I feel embarrassed. (Mir ist peinlich.) You are right, the
po is encoded with local encoding. I made a mistake somehow. And after
several days I can not remember what I have done before. So I tried to
reproduce those operations today. And the compiliation problem remains.

I had the following operations:

1. downloaded WinMerge-2.7.5.3-src.7z, unpacked it,
2. updated its ChineseTraditional.po with English.pot, revise some
translations,
3. opened \WinMerge-2.7.5.3-src\Tools\MakeResDll\MakeResDll.dsw to
build MakeResDll.exe. The messages in pane of vc6 show as follows:
--------------------Configuration: MakeResDll - Win32
Debug--------------------
Compiling resources...
Compiling...
StdAfx.cpp
Compiling...
MakeResDll.cpp
c:\program
files\winmerge-src\winmerge-2.7.5.3-src\tools\makeresdll\makeresdll.cpp(1=
87)
: warning C4786:
'std::reverse_iterator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std:=
:allocator<char>
> const
*,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char>
>,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >
const
&,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >
const *,int>' :
identifier was truncated to '255' characters in the debug information

c:\program
files\winmerge-src\winmerge-2.7.5.3-src\tools\makeresdll\makeresdll.cpp(1=
87)
: warning C4786:
'std::reverse_iterator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std:=
:allocator<char>
> *,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char>
>,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >
&,std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<char> >
*,int>' :
identifier was truncated to '255' characters in the debug information

RegKey.cpp
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\vector(39) :
warning C4786:
'std::vector<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator=
<char>
>,std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::alloc=
ator<char>
> >
>::vector<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<ch=
ar>
>,std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::alloc=
ator<char>
> > >' : identifier was truncated to '255' characters in the debug
information

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\vector(60) :
warning C4786:
'std::vector<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator=
<char>
>,std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::alloc=
ator<char>
> >
>::~vector<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::allocator<c=
har>
>,std::allocator<std::basic_string<char,std::char_traits<char>,std::alloc=
ator<char>
> > >' : identifier was truncated to '255' characters in the debug
information

UnicodeString.cpp
Linking...
LINK : LNK6006: program database C:\Program
Files\WinMerge-src\WinMerge-2.7.5.3-src\BuildTmp\MakeResDll___Win32_Debug=
\MakeResDll.pdb
missing; performing full link

MakeResDll.exe - 0 error(s), 4 warning(s)
(The same compiliation by 2.7.5.1 and 2.7.4 did not show warnings.)

4. copied MakeResDll.exe to \WinMerge-2.7.5.3-src\Src\Languages
5. started CreateRcFilesFromPoFiles.vbs to get MergeChineseTraditional.rc=

6. started BuildOneLanguage.vbs to compile MergeChineseTraditional.rc.
It failed, and the error message is: "Unhandled exception in
MakeResDll.exe in OxC0000005: Access Violation".

ChineseTraditional.po and MergeChineseTraditional.rc are attached.

I have SciTE too. SciTE cannot detect encoding in any situation
automatically. Which encoding it adopts depends in a certain degree on
the user-setting. After choosing encoding the user can see the change
on screen, and determine which encoding a file in question uses. It is
difficult for you to detect local encodings because your PC may not
have the required font. To detect unicode-encoding is in most
situations easier owing to BOM even though lacking the required font.

Wei-cheng


Tim Gerundt =E6=8F=90=E5=88=B0:
> Kimmo Varis wrote:
>>> Since 2.7.5.2 the encoding of .po file were changed into utf-8. And
>>> CreateRcFilesFromPoFiles.vbs produces a rc file which contains utf-8
>>> encoded strings.
>>
>> This sounds like a bug. The header in PO files says its CP-xxx, so
>> there shouldn't be UTF-8 content. Also I think .rc files don't even
>> support UTF-8.
>>
>> We still support W98 so we can't rely on UTF-8 anyways.
>>
>> Tim?
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> Sorry for the long silence, but I was on vacation! ;)
>=20
> I didn't change the CODEPAGE of the PO files. The PO files in SVN looks=

> all normal and my editor SciTE <http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html> says
> there are not UTF-8. I have also no problems to compile the PO files
> with MakeResDll.exe. (I use VC6 too!) So I can't reproduce your problem=
=2E..
>=20
> How do you get the PO file? Do you use a SVN client like TortoiseSVN
> <http://tortoisesvn.net/>? Or do you download the latest source code
> archives from SF.net? Or use the "SVN Browse" page from SF.net
> <http://winmerge.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/winmerge/>? Maybe your
> browser or archive program change the file to UTF-8?
>=20
> Greetings,
> Tim
>=20
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