From: Gil Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thank you very much! That seems to have done the trick!! I was only > setting the locale for LC_MESSAGES. Changing it to LC_ALL worked. > > Also, I found that, if I left the escape sequences in the .po file > (\xC3\xA1), then it didn't work. However, if I entered the "raw UTF-8" > directly by typing ALT+0195 (0xC3) and ALT+0161 (0xA1), it did work. I am > assuming that this is what you mean by raw UTF-8 below. While my editor > is not actually UTF-8 aware, it does let me enter non-ASCII 8-bit > characters by holding down <ALT> and typing the value in decimal. Yes, I > hang my head in shame as I admit that I'm editing on a Windows PC. :-)
1.) "ma\xC3\xB1ana" can be broken into "ma\xC3\xB1" "ana" (in real C code; I don't know if this works in .po files) 2.) Notepad can read/edit/write UTF-8 ;-) Regards, David -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
