Re: gitk translation updates needed?

On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Michele Ballabio [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Generating catalog po/it.msg
 msgfmt --statistics --tcl po/it.po -l it -d po/
 282 translated messages, 1 fuzzy translation, 6 untranslated messages.

I don't get any fuzzy translation here, but I used to, so I guess it
regards the copyright message. If that's the case, maybe msgfmt
mishandles the (C)opyright sign (or maybe gitk uses a weird encoding,
I don't know).

Sorry, I omitted a step in my report:

 $ make po/gitk.pot
 $ msgmerge -U po/it.po po/gitk.pot ;# and for other languages...
 $ make po/it.msg

Yes, with these steps it.po now contains:

#: gitk:2782
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
"\n"
"Gitk - a commit viewer for git\n"
"\n"
"Copyright ©9 2005-2009 Paul Mackerras\n"
"\n"
"Use and redistribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License"

The "fuzzy" attribute is bogus but is understandable, because
the msgid changed: "©" became "©9". What I don't get is:
why "©" became "©9"? Was it a needed change or just an oversight?