Re: common words po non utf8 ?

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Now I can view the file under gedit, but as said this is not a gnome
problem as all the files are utf8 if they weren't then the gnome status
page wouldn't show them...

yours
Arafat
Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Nadim Shaikli um 20:17:
> --- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:
> > I tried today the common words po but gedit can't read it showing me
> > abnormal chars instead of the Arabic letters, gtranslator said about
> > errors in it , Abiword spent hours in importing it without any result
> > and OOo showed arabic chars but not rendered correctly.
> 
> Don't know what to tell you beyond that it looks fine to me (under
> mlterm and various web browsers).  Do keep in mind that Kbabel/gtransltor
> will complain since the format of the file is abnormal.  In other words,
> the .PO files are usually,
> 
>  msgid  "something"
>  msgstr "translation here"
> 
> In the common_terms.po file there are multiple msgstr's and so msgfmt
> and various tools freak out with errors.
> 
> UPDATE -- Having just imported the file locally and tried vim on it,
> I do see what you mean (but mlterm and the browsers still work with
> UTF-8 encoding - very odd).  So I've regenerated the file and checked
> it back in (it now views fine under vim and mlterm).
> 
> A couple of things on this topic,
> 
>  1. Why can I view that "corrupted"? file in mlterm/browsers but not
>     in vim/abiword, etc ?  What I am missing here ?
> 
>  2. Why is debian's vim package (vim-6.2-149+1.deb) without Arabic
>     support (we need to correct this ASAP).
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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