Re: meaningless msgmerge error message in case of charset problems

[Bruno Haible]

Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> When running msgmerge on a ja.po file with
> 
> ,-----
> |# Copyright \251 2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> `-----
> 
> (note the iso-8859-1 (C) copyright character octal 251 in the comment)
> and with
> 
> ,-----
> |"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-jp\n"
> `-----
> 
> in the specification, I got this meaningless error message:
> 
> ,-----
> |msgmerge: conversion failure
> `-----
> 
> It only has a meaning if you already know what the problem is. I suggest
> augmenting the error message

You are right. I'm augmenting the error message so that in gettext-0.15 it
will read like this:
    msgmerge: ja.po: input is not valid in "EUC-JP" encoding

Thanks for the constructive suggestion.

Bruno