Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
Martin> I can't see any reason why gettext(3) would have any Martin> difficulties with iso-2022-jp.
It's possible that " could exist within a iso-2022-jp string, I believe; this would probably throw off gettext's parsing when you get a string like:
That would be a msgfmt(1) problem, right? I doubt gettext(3) has any problems if you manage to compile the catalog. As for the msgfmt problem, I think msgfmt uses the mbcs routines of the C library, which should be capable of distinguishing between a byte that is part of a multi-byte character, and an individual ASCII byte. So I think this should be implementable without any change to the syntax; if it still fails, you might want to submit a bug report. Regards, Martin