Re: Really a valid file?

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Hi!

Thank you for clarification.

I'll send a report to Python team as well.

Best regards

Stanislav

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> 
> > The attached is a piece of Python 2.1 template. They have a bug in
> > script generating the POT file, so it contains a sequence \r\n binary
> > (not textually as it should). In fact, it contains only 0x0D.
> > 
> > Msgfmt accepts the file without any message, but I would not consider it
> > to be a valid PO file (it contains an (Mac)  end of line without quote).
> > 
> > Thanks for clarification.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Such a POT file is valid, but not very useful. It is valid because the
> gettext doc doesn't restrict the characters that can occur in POT file
> strings; therefore ASCII control characters (other than NUL) are
> valid. It is not useful, because if the \r in the string has a meaning
> and should be preserved in translations, how would translators type
> this character in kbabel and similar; and if it has no meaning, then
> why don't you omit it from the POT file.
> 
> msgfmt accepts this POT file, but the other tools like msgcat or
> msgmerge give a warning:
> 
>   msgcat: internationalized messages should not contain the `\r' escape 
> sequence
> 
> Btw, for generating POT files for Python source code, there is also
> xgettext available (since gettext-0.11.1), and it doesn't have the bug
> you mention.
> 
> Bruno
>