Re: Help - need some insight into experience.

["Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com>]

I am trying to understand the flow of conversions and so please bbare with 
me:

My messages are in iso-8859-1/15 format.
I set my locale to ta_IN. I think the encoding for that locale is TSCII-0.
Hence gettext tries to convert from iso-8859-1/15 to TSCII-0.
The font used to display the messages is also iso-8859-1/15 compliant.

Who do I contact about introducing versions of the ta_IN locale: e.g 
ta_IN.ISO8859-1/15.

If I converted all my messages to UTF-8 (conversion from iso-8859-1/15 to 
UTF-8) can I still use my iso-8859-1 font or do I need Unicode fonts.

Thanks for the response.

-D


> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> To: "Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com>
> CC: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Help - need some insight into experience.
> Date: 02 Oct 2001 17:20:58 -0400
>
>
> "Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 hotmail com> writes:
> >
> > Does GTK/GDK do anything before displaying the messages. Here is
> > what I see.
>
> GTK doesn't, but gettext converts them into the locale's encoding, and
> GDK/GTK 1.2 require them to be in the locale encoding. For GDK/GTK
> 1.3.x, they must be in UTF-8.
>
> > I compiled the messages using msgfmt as usual. The messages are 
> iso-8859-1
> > compliant encoded.
> >
> > Then I set my local to ta_IN (I guess it is nolonger just ta). And the
> > messages I see make no sense. They seem to be a collection of characters 
> but
> > no meaningful words.
>
> So the first question is whether the ta_IN locale uses ISO-8859-1.  It
> probably doesn't. Given that, you need to use the correct encoding for
> the locale; for example, UTF-8 might work (try ta_IN.UTF-8 perhaps).
>
> Havoc
>
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