Re: gettext and utf-8 in Gnome 2

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:41:31PM +0200, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> In Gtk+ 2 all user-visible text is in Unicode. This includes
> translations which come from po files. There are two ways to achieve
> this:
> 
> bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, GNOMELOCALEDIR);
> bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");  /* add this call */

What does exactly that call does ? Isn't one call that does the same
for all textdomains ?

> or force all po files to be in utf-8.

That works even if user locale is not utf-8 ?

When I last tested one gtktest (or was it pangotest) package, the po files
were all in utf-8; however, if I didn't launched the test program under
an UTF-8 locale it didn't work correctly.

-- 
Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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