Re: [Bug-gnubg] cvs commands

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:41:51PM +0200, Øystein O Johansen wrote
> 
> > Two questions:
> 
> > 1) I'm not able to use german letter like äöü. After
> > compiling, the menu entries with äöü are not shown.
> 
> Sounds like the same problem I have, but you're using
> Linux, aren't you?
> 
> Ahhh... your using gtk-2.0!!
> 
> gtk-2.0 also accepts only utf-8 characters. OK - so
> how do we make the .gmo files contain only utf-8
> characters? is there an option in msgfmt?

There is the "msgconv -t utf-8 de.po > de.po.new" command. 

Maybe we should find out how other GTK projects handle this?!

> 
> > 2) How do you update the ChangeLog files. They look as
> > they are updated automatically.
> 
> To speak for my self: I do this manually! I think maybe
> emacs have some kind of macro for this, but I think the
> manual way is just as good.

emacs has as changelog-mode that gives you the correct indentation,
color syntax highlighting, line wrap and some macros.

You can do a M-x add-change-log-entry. However, since we do not use the
correct GNU-style timestamp you have to manually change it. I usually
insert the result of running "date" (removing the timezone).

Jørn

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