Re: [Gimp-print-devel] 'make check' failing due to RU translation

[Protea W. J. <aik...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:09 PM Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 06:44:14 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> >
> > On every PPD that has these PageSizes:
> >
> >   **FAIL**  Bad UTF-8 "ru" translation string for option PageSize, choice w297h666_l.
> >   **FAIL**  Bad UTF-8 "ru" translation string for option PageSize, choice w277h538_l.
>
> I saw.  I discussed it with the Russian team, but it's not very
> apparent why it looks like only the Russian translation has this
> problem, or why it's happening at all.
>
> I think it's probably a string length issue, but some of the English
> strings themselves look too long.

Could be that one part of the code is calculating or comparing string
length in characters, and another part in bytes?
Any multibyte functions that should be used here (I know this often is
a difficulty in PHP, for example).
Gernot Hassenpflug