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I am new to gettext() so all I can say is I just ran into the exact same
problem. The gettext() info pages, although well-intentioned, of course,
are woefully inadequate.

I hope someone will help us!

Charlie

P wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> On my first steps trying to NLSify a Perl program I am running into 
> problems. After running xgettext to extract the gettext() string sequences, 
> msgfmt bails out reporting an invalid header:
> 
> bash-2.03$ msgfmt -v test.po
> test.po: warning: no header entry found
> found 1 fatal errors
> 
> The first few lines of test.po are:
> 
> # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
> # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
> #
> #, fuzzy
> msgid ""
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2000-12-28 22:10+0100\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
> "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
> "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
> "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"
> 
> Are these lines the header? I have thoroughly checked the info pages on 
> gettext, xgettext and msgfmt but I was 
> unable to locate anything wrt a header entry.
> 
> Oh, running SuSE 6.3 with gettext utilities version 0.10.35
> Any help appreciated.
> Cheers,



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Charlie Zender zender@uci.edu (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100