<div dir="ltr"><div>Let me get this straight: You want to add LRO outside the quotes... why would you do that for?</div><div>Think about it, lets say you wanted to do the same thing with an app written in C, you would type something like: printf(<LRO>"");, this command won't allow compilation since you typed LRO as part of the syntax, same for gettext, you can't add any symbols outside the quotes because of the exact same reason...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please, I may have misunderstood so please feel free to correct me if it is so...</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Yaron</font><font color="#330000"> Shahrabani</font></span><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; ">
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<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Chris Scaife <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scaife.chris@gmail.com">scaife.chris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote " style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div> I do understand that this list is intended for bug reporting.</div><div>So I've come across a few issues with the gettext tools and I assume many here do use these for internationalization and localization. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Attached is image of part of my ar_SA.po file in which I had to place standard Unicode LRO (or optionally RLO) overrides... just before the " of the translation. That way I can insert what is technically considered an Arabic "part number" containing a mixture of Arabic digits and letters. I don't want the LRO code to be part of my part number<i> inside</i> the quotes, or it won't be recognized and processed correctly by the software.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All is well up to the point where I try to run "msgfmt" it gives me:</div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote " style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
base.ar_SA.utf-8.po:49:8: syntax error</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote " style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
base.ar_SA.utf-8.po:52:8: syntax error</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote " style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Is there any specific bug list this would be more appropriate for?</div><div> </div></div><br>
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