Re: weird i18n problem on Windows XP Home

["Daniel Atallah" <daniel atallah gmail com>]

On Feb 8, 2008 10:10 AM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

> I've received a strange problem report about the win32 version of
> my GTK app running on XP Home in Spanish on an ACER 1691 laptop
> (setlocale gives "Spanish_Spain.1252").
>
> Window titles are managed by gettext, as in
>
>  title = g_strdup(_("gretl: command script"));
>  gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(foo), title);
>
> so when running in Spanish some window titles will contain
> accented characters.  For example, the above becomes
>
>  gretl: gui\'on de instrucciones
>
> (represented as TeX for email purposes).
>
> The problem is that such windows are not opening, with an error
> of "hay una secuencia de bytes no v\'alida en la entrada de
> conversi\'on".
>
> Many people are running the program in Spanish without this
> problem; there seems to be something about this XP installation
> that is tricking glib.  Any notions what might be wrong?


Which version of GTK+ are you using?

I don't know if this is relevant to the problem you're seeing, but the win32
port of GTK+ doesn't fully support non-ascii window titles until 2.12.0.

The other thing I can think of is that message in the Spanish .po file may
not be correctly encoded. I would expect msgfmt to warn you if this is the
case.

-D