Re: gitk translation updates needed?

Michele Ballabio [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 $ 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?

Very interesting.

The last commit that touched the copyright line in gitk was aa43561 (gitk:
Don't compare fake children when comparing commits, 2009-09-10) that
updated the years.  But the commit did not change the circle-c symbol at
all:

    $ git show --format='%H' -U1 aa43561a | head -n 10 | tail -n 2 | od -cx
    0000000   -   #       C   o   p   y   r   i   g   h   t     302 251    
            232d 4320 706f 7279 6769 7468 c220 20a9
    0000020   2   0   0   5   -   2   0   0   8       P   a   u   l       M
    ...
    0000100   +   #       C   o   p   y   r   i   g   h   t     302 251    
            232b 4320 706f 7279 6769 7468 c220 20a9
    0000120   2   0   0   5   -   2   0   0   9       P   a   u   l       M

"make po/gitk.pot" which is "xgettext -kmc -LTcl -o po/gitk.pot gitk"
however produces this:

    $ grep Paul po/gitk.pot | od -cx
    0000000   "   C   o   p   y   r   i   g   h   t     302 251   9       2
            4322 706f 7279 6769 7468 c220 39a9 3220
    0000020   0   0   5   -   2   0   0   9       P   a   u   l       M   a
    ...

Notice that "302 251 9"?

Is this a bug in "gettext", perhaps?