[kiko: Re: Encoding problem?]

[Danilo Šegan]

Yesterday at 16:37, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:55:54PM +0200, Milo Casagrande wrote:
>> https://translations.launchpad.net/ddtp-ubuntu/ubuntu/+pots/ddtp-ubuntu-main/it/+translate?start=1599&batch=1
>
> This is pretty odd. Milo, can you check if the translations are broken
> in the original package?
>
> Carlos, Danilo, this is what the msgset looks like:
>
>      <div id="msgset_509650_singular">This package contains toolbar-like “panels” which can be attached to the sides of your X desktop, or left “floating”. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Gnome Desktop Environment. Many features are provided for use with the panels – including an application menu, clock, mail checker, network monitor, quick launch icons and the like.</div> 
>
> That's quite odd -- given it's the english translation. But I'm wondering where
> the problem is!

We support UTF-8 strings in English messages quite well:

  https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/gnome-panel/+pots/gnome-panel-2.0/it/430/+translate

My initial guess is that there's a problem with DDTP-Ubuntu template
(.pot file).  It needs to specify encoding for the POT file if it's
not Latin-1 (default for gettext, I think).

Cheers,
Danilo