Re: [PATCH] set locale to avoid xgettext error

[Collin Funk]

Hi,

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <gray@gnu.org.ua> writes:

> Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> ha escrit:
>
>> I see that in this commit, you removed a non-ASCII character from a comment.
>> That was triggering the same build failure I'm experiencing with the
>> word "comprobación".
>> What is the rule here, remove the non ANSII characters, or we can set
>> the encoding to utf8?
>
> The comment in question is a hint for translators, and is reproduced
> verbatim in the resulting pot file.  Perhaps the best way would be to
> remove the proposed example, and leave just the textual description,
> hoping that "dictum sapienti sat".

FYI, On Fedora 40 GNU tar doesn't build unless I add --from-code=UTF-8
as an xgettext argument.

I submitted a patch for this and some other issues I found here [1] [2].

Collin

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2024-09/msg00000.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2024-09/msg00002.html