On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:02:02 +0100 Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras > > >> <felipe contreras gmail com> wrote: > > >>> Is there any reason? > > >>> > > >> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth > > >> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random > > >> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related > > >> bug discussion. > > > > > > And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above > > > it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available > > > on Unix systems without NLS support. > > > > Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded > > systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their > > application and use a different translation framework. > > And it means that a lot of convenience functions for UTF-8 handling > wouldn't work. Just FYI, that's not true. The GLib Unicode code does not require gettext. Unicode support and message translation support are two entirely different matters. -- Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort brutele be>
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