Re: gettext with special chars in msgid

[Bruno Haible]

[CCing bug-gnu-gettext]

Hello,

> sorry for direct message to you. But i would like to have a direct
> answer from the developer.

The mailing list is there not only to give other people than me a chance to
answer, but also other people than you to gain profit from the response.
When you ask a question, what makes you think that you are the only one
in the world who should profit from the answer?

> Is it a problem to use special chars in gnu gettext implementation?
> Or is only ascii chars allowed?
> We would like to use german umlauts in our source as msgid.

Quoting the documentation [1]:
  "It is therefore recommended that all msgids be US-ASCII strings."

However, as mentioned in [2], this recommendation becomes less and less
important, because more and more user environments and tools support UTF-8
out of the box.

Bruno

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Charset-conversion.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2011-01/msg00033.html

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