coreutils-5.96 has broken pl.po translation

[Wiktor Wandachowicz]

Recent update of coreutils yielded an unexpected result on my box.
Namely, the Polish gettext catalogue (pl.po) is broken beyond repair.
OTOH coreutils-5.95 have the translation correct.

The description of the problem follows:

* In 5.95, pl.po file contains a header entry:

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2\n"

 and the file indeed is in the ISO-8859-2 encoding. So, each of 18
 locale-specific characters is encoded in one byte. Example (in hex):

 ł (l with /) => B3
 ę (e with ,) => EA
 ą (a with ,) => B1
 ó (o with ') => F3

* In 5.96 pl.po file contains the same header, but *ALL* Polish-specific
 characters were magically transformed into a three-byte combination:

 ł (l with /) => EF BF BD
 ę (e with ,) => EF BF BD
 ą (a with ,) => EF BF BD
 ó (o with ') => EF BF BD

Additionaly:

# file coreutils-5.95/po/pl.po
pl.po: ISO-8859 PO (gettext message catalogue) text

# file coreutils-5.96/po/pl.po
pl.po: UTF-8 Unicode PO (gettext message catalogue) text


This is a real problem, because the file encoding is not recoverable without
lots of manual tweaking...

Help?

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