[Mailman-i18n] Automatic translation between GB and BIG5 code

[Tokio Kikuchi]

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> 

> However, I've had trouble running it through msgfmt.  See the errors
> below.  If anybody can lend assistance, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> -Barry
> 
> -------------------- snip snip --------------------
> % make catalogs
> msgfmt -o big5/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo big5/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po
> big5/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po:57: end-of-line within string
> big5/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po:93: illegal control sequence

Hi Barry,

I am not very sure but Big5 encoding may contain \ (backslash)
in some of the double byte characters.
In Japanese encoding, Shift_JIS has such an encoding scheme;
while the first byte of Shift_JIS is 8th bit set, the following
second byte may contain 7 or 8 bit code.
There is a patch/module for Python to distiguish the second byte
'\' in Japanese but I don't know if such is there for Chinese.


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