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authorRamiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com>2010-10-10 16:45:06 +0000
committerRamiro Morales <cramm0@gmail.com>2010-10-10 16:45:06 +0000
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parentfee4aa31d7c8b08b58dab46c502e3c736d845539 (diff)
[1.2.X] Fixed #6073 -- Made compilemessages 18n management command reject PO files with BOM.
Backport of [14125] from trunk git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.2.X@14126 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ That's it. Your translations are ready for use.
``django-admin compilemessages`` works see :ref:`gettext_on_windows` for more
information.
+.. admonition:: .po files: Encoding and BOM usage.
+
+ Django only supports ``.po`` files encoded in UTF-8 and without any BOM
+ (Byte Order Mark) so if your text editor adds such marks to the beginning of
+ files by default then you will need to reconfigure it.
+
.. _creating-message-files-from-js-code:
Creating message files from JavaScript source code