[Debconf-devel] Bug#607688: [debian-installer] Some Spanish strinng malformed

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino]

On 21 December 2010 07:14, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> This is an encoding problem in debconf's Spanish translation (yay for
> ISO-8859-1). The file is a mix of UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 characters
> (those useless X-POFile-SpellExtra: headers)

Some comments:

- the file declares itself (in the PO header) that is UTF-8, I don't
know why debconf tries to "figure out" the encoding if it is clearly
defined in the headers. The X-POFile-SpellExtra headers should be
omitted by debconf.

- the X-POFile-SpellExtra headers are not useless, there are actually
quite useful to do a spellcheck of the file using gettext-lint tools
easily and catch mistakes in the translation. They list the words that
have been considered "good" and are part of the dictionary used for
spell-checking the file.

- the X-POFile-SpellExtra headers where in ISO-8859-1 because I (in
the past) used ispell for spell checking (which does not support
UTF-8) as aspell did not work with POFileSpell, the latest version of
gettex-lint (uploaded recently to the archive) works with aspell
perfectly fine so I will switch.

In any case, the fix for this bug is recoding just the
X-POFile-SpellExtra headers to UTF-8. Christian, I cannot review right
now the file you sent but I guess that's what you did.

Regards

Javier