Encoding issue with xfdesktop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 10/30/2006 11:43 AM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
>>> On 10/30/2006 10:17 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>>>>> Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
>>>>>> Not really; probably xfdesktop's fr.po file is broken in some way.
>>>>> Guess you're right about this. I set my environment variables from fr_FR 
>>>>> to de_DE... and all of a sudden, everything displays correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is: how could I possibly "repair" the broken fr.po file? It 
>>>>> displays OK in Vim as well as POEdit.
>>> My guess would be the .po file is in one encoding, while claiming to be
>>> in another.  Try contacting the maintainer of the translation?  Should
>>> be listed in the .po file, or maybe somewhere on http://i18n.xfce.org/.
> 
> I'm not the maintainer of that translation, but I'm not seeing that file
> broken. It's UTF8 and the content displays fine in UTF8.
> 
>     xfdesktop/trunk/po$ file fr.po
>     fr.po: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines

Does 'file' actually validate the utf8?  I doubt it.  It probably just
reads the first couple hundred bytes and guesses based on that.  Maybe
try using iconv to convert it from utf8 to something else to see if it
throws any 'bad utf8' errors?  Can't try it myself atm.

	-brian
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