Hi,

I have a project here with German messages in the program code I like to
translate using Locale::TextLocale 1.14 (currently without XS
optimization). Perl version is 5.8.5. The program file encoding is
ISO-8859-1, so I set xgettext --from-code=ISO-8859-1 in the Makefile.

The generated .pot and .po files have the messages converted to UTF-8,
no problem so far. The "Content-Type" header is set to UTF-8
accordingly, everyhing looks consistent.

This is my en.po file:

  msgid ""
  msgstr ""
  "Project-Id-Version: l10ntest 1.0\n"
  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: Joern Reder <joern AT zyn.de>\n"
  "POT-Creation-Date: 2005-08-16 10:04+0200\n"
  "PO-Revision-Date: 2005-08-16 10:02+CET\n"
  "Last-Translator: Joern Reder <>\n"
  "Language-Team: Joern Reder <>\n"
  "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

  #: ../test.pl:8
  msgid "Datei öffnen"
  msgstr "Open file"

  #: ../test.pl:9
  msgid "Datei oeffnen"
  msgstr "Open file"

But all message id's with ISO-Latin 8bit characters are not translated.
Obviously something with the message catalog lookup doesn't work here as
expected. My test program looks like this (really simple and
straightforward ;)

  use strict;
  use lib 'lib';
  use Locale::TextDomain ("test");
  print __"Datei öffnen","\n";
  print __"Datei oeffnen","\n";

The first message gets translated, but the second not.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Joern

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