That was it. Eclipse was treating the file with the default encoding (in my case MacRoman). As soon as I changed the file properties to UTF-8 compilemessages worked fine (though I did have to fix every single encoded character in the file).
Thanks for your help. CE On Oct 13, 11:45 am, Bill Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > This may be a matter of using the correct encoding in the file. > Be sure that the editor that you are using is treating the file as UTF-8. > (I presume from the headers that the compile step is treating the > file as UTF-8, but the editor may not look at that header, and may, > for example, be using latin-1.) > > Bill > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:40 AM, celopes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a django.po file containing: > > > # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. > > # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER > > # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE > > package. > > # FIRST AUTHOR <em...@address>, YEAR. > > # > > #, fuzzy > > msgid "" > > msgstr "" > > "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" > > "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" > > "POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-12 22:28-0400\n" > > "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" > > "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <em...@address>\n" > > "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[email protected]>\n" > > "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" > > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" > > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" > > > #: core/templates/index.html:7 > > msgid "Currently selected language is" > > msgstr "A linguagem atualmente selecionada é" > > > #: core/templates/index.html:8 > > msgid "Howdy!" > > msgstr "E aí?!" > > > When I try to compile messages, I get an error like: > > > processing file django.po in .../locale/pt_br/LC_MESSAGES > > .../locale/pt_br/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:25:44: invalid multibyte > > sequence > > .../locale/pt_br/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:29:12: invalid multibyte > > sequence > > msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors > > > The problem is obviously related to any accented characters (in the > > excerpt above é and í). If I replace those by their non-accented > > counterparts or by é and í the compilation works fine > > and translation operates normally. > > > I'm running mac os x 10.6.1 and the accented characters are the result > > of me typing using the US International - PC keyboard layout (so, I > > press single-quote-e to obtain é; for example). > > > What am I doing wrong, please? > > > Thanks, > > > CE --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
