Re: non-ASCII character in untranslated strings

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> > When I use gettext calls and the untranslated (English) string
> > contains non-ASCII characters, gettext fails to find the translation.
> > Is something wrong with my setup (from under GTK+, UTF-8 charset) or
> > with gettext itself?
> 
> There are three possible causes of this problem:
>   - [...]

>   - You are not using glibc >= 2.3.3 (on glibc systems) or
>     libintl from GNU gettext >= 0.13 (on non-glibc systems).

I have file `/lib/libc-2.3.2.so', so I suppose that means the first
requirement fails?  Or how do I check?

Actually, I'm on Debian Sarge and this is only one year old distro.
Do you mean this problem exists on new distributions?

(Gettext version is 0.14.4.)

Paul