Author: Alan Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review bugfix/preserve_pot_charset [was: Re:
refresh-translations bug?]
Hi,
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:56:50 +0000 Alan <alan@???> wrote: > Hi,
>
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:54:07 +0200 sajolida@??? wrote:
>
> > On 21/04/13 01:51, Alan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When finalizing feature/about_tails, I encountered a wired issue
> > > with PO files. Python's gettext crashes with a LookupError while
> > > reading encoding of the PO file header, which is... "CHARSET".
> > > This is obviously a wrong charset, but it's the one created by
> > > refresh-translations for newly created PO files:
> > >
> > >
> > > I currently workaroud that in my python scripts, but I'm afraid
> > > that the actual problem is in refresh-tranlsation. What do you
> > > think?
> >
> > I agree. The script refresh-translations runs xgettext to generate
> > new POT files but it doesn't take into account the previous POT
> > files, and for example the charset that could have been defined in
> > it.
> >
> > Can you review and test the branch bugfix/preserve_pot_charset?
> >
> I tested the branch and it works. However, its 1st commit is not
> useful and its name is misleading: as far as I understand, it
> actually doesn't preserve anything, it just sets UTF-8 as a default
> encoding. I'm in favor of merging it anyway, *but* I would strongly
> prefer that we rewrite its history and rename it before. Would you
> please do that?
> Should I do that myserf?
