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Re: xgettext and universal character names (\uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX)
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: xgettext and universal character names (\uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX) |
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Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:46:20 -0700 |
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On 03/18/2011 07:06 AM, Tobias Germer wrote:
> Say I want to translate the following:
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> std::cout << "This is a translated string \u00A0 \U000020AC \n";
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> xgettext extracts the following text:
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> msgid "This is a translated string \\u00A0 \\U000020AC \n"
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> So xgettext doesn't seem to recognize \uXXXX or \UXXXXXXXX sequences. It
> just escapes the backslashes (as opposed to \n in this example). I think
> it should output instead:
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> msgid "This is a translated string \u00A0 \U000020AC \n"
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> Is this a bug or did I get something wrong? If it's a bug is there any
> plan or idea how to fix it?
It does appear to be an issue, but this bug report should be sent to
bug-gnu-gettext, which I am CC:ing to now.