Re: Gtk application in hindi

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:30 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Naveen Kumar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to build an application with Hindi(local language) text
> > for all widgets. Please guide me what is the better way to proceed for
> > the above.
> >   
> 
> If it'll be only in Hindi, then program normally, but with all GUI 
> labels, messages, etc. written directly in Hindi, using UTF-8 encoding. 
> If you want it to be a multilingual application supporting Hindi, again 
> there is nothing necessary to support Hindi specifically. Use gettext, 
> and then the application can be translated into any language, Hindi 
> included. Here are some tutorials:
> 
> http://oriya.sarovar.org/docs/gettext/
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html

I also add:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-internatlgtk/index.html

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