Thanks Étienne, this works well. This is my first experience needing to do iconv conversion so I didn't realize specifying the inpuy format mattered that much. I'll be incorporating the fixes in the next upload
-- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] Nov 29, 2025 09:21:48 Étienne Mollier <[email protected]>: > Hi Chris, > >> The French translation file debian/po/fr.po for MLMMJ is a text file that is >> in ISO-8859-15 format, not UTF-8, and 'iconv -t UTF-8' is unable to translate >> the file due to invalid characters in the file. > > If that helps, specifiying the source encoding helps iconv with > doing the right thing: > > $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 < debian/po/fr.po > # mail server independent mailing list manager. > # Copyright (C) 2004 > # This file is distributed under the same license as the mlmmj package. > # Søren Boll Overgaard <[email protected]>, 2006. > […] > > The same tip will work for the German translation. > > In hope this helps, > Have a nice day, :) > -- > .''`. Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> > : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da > `. `' sent from /dev/pts/3, please excuse my verbosity > `-
