Insight please - what is GDK/GTK doing to the messages.

["Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com>]

Hi:

Does GTK/GDK do anything before displaying the messages. Here is what I see.

I compiled the messages using msgfmt as usual. The messages are iso-8859-1 
compliant encoded.

Then I set my local to ta_IN (I guess it is nolonger just ta). And the 
messages I see make no sense. They seem to be a collection of characters but 
no meaningful words.

Then as a test I compiled my messages into en_GB (which I assumed would also 
be iso-8859-1 compliant) and then set my locale to en_GB. Now I see the 
messages but many of the characters in the extended ASCII set (128 - 255) 
are not displayed (about 12 of them).

I can only conclude that GDK or something is doing/analyzing the locale and 
the encoding that locale expects and does something to the messages.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance.

_Dinesh

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