On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:02:44AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: [...] > > Maybe fix_big5.pl should be run against those PO files so that MO > > files contain escaped backslashes? > > If you insert extra 0x5C bytes into the stream, the text will look very > broken to a Big5 text editor.
This is why I suggest to insert backslashes in MO files and not PO files. Those backslashes will be removed when processed through WML. > It is also not possible to directly see which characters end in a 0x5C > byte, so doing this is not feasible. The chinese/bin/fix_big5.pl has surely been written for this purpose. As it is there for a long time, I guess it performs its job; so it could IMO also be used to process PO files when calling msgfmt. Denis