As soon as I tried to use Apple's advanced translation tool AppleGlot, I found myself facing a cryptic error message saying:
�AppleGlot encountered some nib files but was unable to process them as nibtool, or the correct version of nibtool, could not be found.
Check that your preferences are setup correctly.�
The AppleGlot's preferences never specify anything about nibtool so I was really wondering what that was about.�
I googled for a short time: some other people have had this problem but no solution was ever offered.
The solution, as a matter of fact, is quite easy and I found it while looking in my console.log: I had put the environment folder for AppleGlot in a path containing a non–ASCII character ("ƒ" in my case). Removing that single character from the path has solved the problem.
The problem is that AppleGlot generates a command line for nibtool that is not valid as the "complex" character is sent as an UTF-8 character to the shell, that doesn't udnerstand it and nibtool returns a "file not found" error.
Actually I've later found that this is a "known bug", as it is documented in the manual ("Where AppleGlot environment should be placed"), but there's no explicit connection anywhere with the cryptic error.
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