[Translation-i18n] I18n of bash script

[Steve P. <st...@st...>]

I maintain a bash script (http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net/) - 
recently a user sent me an Italian version of the script.

I've done my best to create an i18n'ised version of the script, to use 
the input. I suspect that I've lost something in the cut'n'paste, though.

The contributor sent me a modified version of my source; I've 
cut'n'pasted it into an it.po file, and it "works" in that the script 
now displays his Italian translations instead of my English.
It just doesn't look "right" to me, though - I'd send a screenshot if 
reinstalling RedHat hadn't screwed it up.
Basically, if I log in with an Italian language set, I see accented 
characters, etc, as something more like "e'" than an "e-acute" symbol 
I'd expect to see.

All the code is as at the above URL, so I won't spam this alias with 
code - I'm totally new to i18n, what am I doing wrong? I want to make it 
as easy as possible for people to contribute translations

Cheers,

Steve.