Denis Barbier: > Err, ascii(7) tells me that 0x5C *is* a backslash.
Yes, but these documents aren't ASCII, so 0x5C may not or may not be a backslash there, depending on where they are located in the file. > Could you please have a look at chinese/po/others.zh.po and tell me > what to do with Subscribe/Unsubscribe translations? Nothing should need to be done, since the 0x5C byte is the trail byte of the character, a proper MBCS aware string scanner will recognize that it is not a backslash character (unlike, for instance, in the "please respect the ad policy" string a bit further down, which *does* contain a backslash in the translation). Getting the string scanner to work properly requires configuring the locales properly. Big5 is a bit problematic since it allows non-highbit characters as trail bytes, similar to the problems with ISO 2022-JP. A stateful string scanner is required to handle it properly. LibC should work fine as long as the proper locale is available, and I am pretty sure that the gettext utilities will handle this properly. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments.
