Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds gmail com>]

On 2/27/07, Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 00:39 +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
> > I can recall in some older discussion that current GNOME 'policy' is
> > "source code == en_US".

I used to think "source code  == C (locale)"

> I think that should be "source code == ASCII printable characters plus
> the Character Escape Codes
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#endnote_3)", as in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
>
> That is from index 32 to 126 in ASCII and corresponds to exactly the
> same with UTF-8, including some non-printable characters such as
> newline, tab and so on.
>
> If there are any data, they are stored as hex values or something
> similar.

As all GTK+ programs now use UTF-8 encoding, it's ok to use utf-8
encoding IMHO (and it would be easier for translators to figure out
what those characters are)

> Is there a reference to something like this?

I'd love to know too

> Simos
>
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Duy