[Slapt-get-user] german translation

[Niklas Volbers]

Hello Jason!

I created the .mo files from source as you suggested.  When I look 
through them (via 'less'), I can see the umlaute that I was talking 
about.  But then again, 'slapt-get --help' will yield these question 
marks.  This might just be an issue with my setup: For comparison, I 
tried out the swedish translation (which contains special characters as 
well), using 'LANG=sv_SE slapt-get --help' and special characters were 
replaced as well by a question mark.

Is this just with my setup?  Can anybody else confirm this?

Regards,

Niklas.


>>I found some time to look at my own (german) translation for slapt-get and>  noticed that the
> 
> Umlaute (the german letters with the two dots on top of > it: ä,ö,ü) and the special character
> ß don't appear correctly in the trans> lation.  I can only see a question mark for each one of
> these letters.  Lo> oking at the de.po file in the source tarball, everything looks o.k. to me>
> .  Where did the error occur?
> 
> Hmm... the makefile runs `msgfmt -o de.mo po/de.po`.  That mo file should then go in your
> locales directory.  Maybe my msgfmt isn't creating the correct binary .mo file.  Try creating
> it on yours by using the source slapt-get distribution and seeing if it goes away.  I would
> think that msgfmt would output the same thing.  Let me know otherwise.