Re: initdb problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: initdb problem
Date
Msg-id 200408010517.i715H8V25075@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: initdb problem  (Zhenbang Wei <zhenbang@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: initdb problem
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The big problem is that it didn't add an extra \ in the cases I
mentioned.  There were other strings that looked like:
"XXX\XX"

where X is a high-bit character.  Notice there is only one backslash.

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Zhenbang Wei wrote:
> Some characters in Big5 encoding has a / on
> second byte and I think poEdit will add another / for me.
> Now I think I should use UTF-8 instead of Big5.
> I will send new files in minutes. Sorry for causing problems.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 00:48:21 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian
> <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> > 
> > Ah, just the person I was looking for.  I see in the initdb po file you
> > sent that the use of backslashes in the message string is causing some
> > of us problems.
> > 
> > What are the rules for backslashes in translation files?  I particularly
> > had problems with lines 199, 260, and 461 in the initdb po file because
> > you had things like:
> > 
> >         "XXX\\n"
> > 
> > where XXX were high-bit characters.  Was that correct?  It caused us
> > problems because it interpreted \\ as a single backslash and then
> > complained because the message id and string had a different number of
> > newlines.
> > 
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> > 
> > Zhenbang Wei wrote:
> > > Thanks for importing these translations :-)
> > 
> > [ Attachment, skipping... ]
> > 
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