Re: texinfo norwegian translation mangled?

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:17+0100, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:

> On 14 jul 2003, address@hidden wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:44-0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> >> I've received a bug report (thanks, Gaute and Josip) that the
> >> Norwegian translation included in the Texinfo 4.6 release contains
> >> a spurious byte with hex value 0x81 before every non-ASCII
> >> character.  Can you look into this please?
> >
> > I have noticed this behaviour before. I have usually removed all
> > occurences of this byte before submitting a new no.po file. Since
> > this bug keeps returning, I don't think it's an error on my part,
> > then again I could be wrong.
>
> Do you use emacs?  Having these odd bytes pop up in annoying places
> is a common bug with certain versions.

I use GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (I know my Emacs is old, but that's the one I
have) and po-mode 2.01 from GNU gettext 0.12.1.

I should clarify that I have never had any problems with the
translation file after editing it with my version of Emacs, i.e. no
spurious bytes.

As far as I can tell, the updated no.po file I mailed Karl the other
day, has no spurious bytes whatsoever. If the spurious bytes are
introduced again, I suspect the problem is somewhere else along the
chain.

However, almost every time I have downloaded a new (pretest) version
of GNU Texinfo, there has been spurious bytes in the no.po file.

Could this be caused by some misbehaving conversion between ISO-8859-1
and UTF-8 and back again?

(God, how I hate UTF-8! It's a bad compromise between ISO-8859-X (or
is it ISO-646?) and plain Unicode, but that's my view of the subject.)

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