[Kstars-devel] another non-ascii translation bug

[Pablo de Vicente]

El Miércoles, 13 de Abril de 2005 09:38, Jason Harris escribió:
> Hello,
>
> We just got this BR: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103797
> Which reports that City names whose English string contains non-ascii
> characters (like Göttingen, Düsseldorf) are not being translated in the
> UI.  Can someone who uses a non-English KStars check this?
>
> thanks,
> Jason

Hello Jason,

I though I could not confirm this behaviour but I do not translate city names 
unless there is a corresponding name in Spanish and this only happens for big 
cities or well known cities. The only city I could thought of was Colonia, 
(Cologne or in german Köeln), but unfortunately the original string it is not 
written in german with umlaut.

So to check the behaviour I have translated one entry like Düsseldorf by 
Duesseldorf in the spanish PO file. Then I have created the binary file:
  msgfmt kstars.po kstars.mo
and I have copied kstars.mo to its target directory:
  cp kstars.mo /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kstars.mo
and then I started kstars.

If using the CVS version I get Düsseldorf. So the translation has not worked.
If using the distribution version (still KDE 3.3!!) I get Dŋŋ?sseldorf. So the 
translation does not work either. The latter behaviour may come from msgfmt. 
I think that KDE uses a patched version of gettext. 

In any case something is wrong and I can confirm the bug. The problem is I 
have no idea where the problem comes from and I did not notice it before.  

Pablo.
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