glibc-2.2.4/po/zh_TW.po:1581: invalid multibyte sequence

[Adam J. Richter]

        After rebuilding gettext-0.10.39 with libiconv-1.7, "make install"
in glibc-2.2.4 abort in the "po" directory with the following error:

zh_TW.po:1581: invalid multibyte sequence

        It is easy enough for me to work around by deleting the
translation, but I think it will require someone who knows about
big5 encoding in detail to fix it.

        The message in question is a copyright notice, and my wild guess
is that the offending characters is intended to be some kind of Chinese
copyright symbol.

Some disclaimers:
        1. I am sending this to bug-glibc as opposed to libc-alpha
           or libc-hacker because that is that the glibc-2.2.4/README
           now says to do.  You may want to forward this message to
           address@hidden, because I believe H. J. Lu
           reads that list, and he is the only libc developer whom I know
           who knows Chinese.
        2. I am buliding glibc-2.2.4 with gcc-3.0.1 and Jakub Jelenik's
           compatability patch, which I realize is unsupported.
           Nevertheless, I thought it would be useful to report this
           information.
        3. I have checked the glibc cvs repository and verified that
           no changes have been made to zh_TW.po since the 2.2.4 release.

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