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9212	German Umlauts and possible other foreign languages special characters	nekron	nobody	"SVN: 9084

Today I played around with internationalization. My source code labels and template files contain German language by default which I wanted to translate into English. All files are utf-8 encoded so that I can use special Umlauts like ""äöüß"".

Creating the .po file with ""makemessages -l en"" I find that e.g. the word ""Straße"" (=street) will be shown in the .po file as 

{{{
#: .\survey\models.py:71
msgid ""Straße""   <-- strange chars here!
msgstr ""Street""
}}}

I was editing the .po file with VIM utf-8 encoding set on so in my opinion I should see ""Straße"" instead of that strange looking word. I am not sure if this is a Windows gettext related bug and will try it on my Linux box tomorrow. Anyway other languages might be affected by this, too. On the other hand this is only a little quirk and translation within the application works fine for me.
"		closed	Internationalization	1.1		fixed	Umlauts	Malcolm Tredinnick	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0