Re: po files and charset field

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:35:16PM +0000, Robert Brady wrote:

>> Since version 2.2 of glibc it seems that automatic on-the-fly charset
>> conversion is possible, eg you cna have a po (well a mo :) ) file translated
>> using koi8-r but tell LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8 or LC_ALL=ru_RU.CP1251, and
>> it will convert it and it will work automagically.
> 
> Of course, this won't work on non-Linux platforms,

No, it is a feature of gettext/libc, currently GNU libc2.2 implements it;
but others could do as well.

> which means we'll need
> to convert the Gnome 2.0 .po files to UTF-8 anyway. :)

But for a different reason: it won't use X11 font resolving and rendering
but pango, and pango requires utf-8.

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Pablo Saratxaga

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