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Documented the lack of charset handling in Locale::PO.

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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo 2006-01-08 14:39:18 +02:00 committed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
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@ -643,6 +643,15 @@ in GNU Gettext.
Locale::PO requires blank lines between entries, but Uniforum style PO
files don't have any.
The C<quote> and C<dequote> methods assume Perl knows the encoding
of the string. If it doesn't, they'll treat each 0x5C byte as a
backslash even if it's actually part of a multibyte character.
Therefore, Locale::PO should parse the charset parameter from the
header entry, and decode the strings with that. It is unclear whether
the charset must be decoded even before the newlines and quotes are
parsed; this would mainly be a requirement with UTF-16, which GNU
Gettext doesn't support.
=head2 Almost Bugs
Locale::PO does not save the line numbers at which entries begin or