Re: what value of $LANG is required for gtk-2.0?
- From: Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>
- To: Robert Brady <robert susu org uk>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: what value of $LANG is required for gtk-2.0?
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:31:49 +0500 (SAMST)
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Robert Brady wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> > Hmm, do you mean that we can modify it to perform charset conversion?
>
> This would be possible.
>
> There's g_locale_{to,from}_utf8 which are ideal for doing this...
>
> > That also may be a solution - but it will require wrappers for all functions
> > that return locale-dependant information (though there are not many) and
> > forcing programmers to use these wrappers. Or we should force programmers to
> > convert return values of such functions to utf8 (AFAR QT uses this apporach).
> > But we should choose only one of these options of course.
>
> Agreed. Does anyone have a list of functions that would need to be
> wrapped.
>
> nl_langinfo() (maybe)
> strftime()
>
> any others?
Also localeconv() - 'currency_symbol' and various separators can be
non-ascii.
Best regards,
-Vlad
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