rosetta not filling in all of .po header

[Valient Gough]

I've just started using Rosetta to allow users to add translations for
my program.  It is not a very commonly used program, but the users are
scattered all over the world.  Thanks for creating the rosetta
interface!

So far I've seen two problems:

1. rosetta doesn't update all fields in the header, which causes an
error from gettext's msgfmt command.

Output when I build the a po file from rosetta (note that this is a
default setup taken from gettext examples): 

> make es.gmo
rm -f es.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o es.gmo es.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: es.po: some header fields still have the initial
default value
/usr/bin/msgfmt: es.po: warning: PO file header fuzzy
                        warning: older versions of msgfmt will give an
error onthis
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error


The error is due to the uninitialized header fields:

"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL at ADDRESS>\n"


2. Rosetta uses special characters to show blank spaces in the text to
be translated.  It would be nice if these were translated into real
spaces when exporting a PO file.  I see those special characters in the
PO file because users seem to cut-and-paste in order to get the right
number of spaces.  So if would be convenient if they were translated
back transparently.


regards,
Valient

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