Re: Quotation marks: Using “” instead of ""

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 20:48 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Well, as I said, in this case:
> > 
> > gtk_label_new(_(some_string));
> > 
> > The output of gettext can (and often will) be UTF-8,
> > so gtk_label_new is going to receive UTF-8 whether
> > some_string is ASCII or not.  If it's not UTF-8-safe,
> > we're pretty much screwed already.
> 
> No no no
> 
> The output of _("blah") is "blah" for C locale, and "blah" should be
> ASCII. You should only receive UTF-8 as the return from _("foo") in a
> UTF-8 locale.
> 
> It isn't about being "UTF-8 safe" it is about "expecting UTF-8 in this
> locale".

If gettext is returning anything but UTF-8, we have
a lot of bugs in our application code.  Because all
of us just pass that stuff off to GTK+, and GTK+
always expects UTF-8, regardless of the locale.

--
Shaun