Re: gettext usage in libraries

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 27 Nov 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > Ulrich presumably means either a) all users should use a UTF-8 locale
> > or b) all apps should use locale encoding, not UTF-8. Though I've
> > failed to read his mind in the past.
> 
> And you fail again.  Nobody here seems to understand what the gettext
> code does.  Unless the environment is broken (which isn't normally the
> case anymore and if it is can be fixed in the support code) the
> functions know what conversion to make.  Explicitly setting the
> charset is unnecessary at best and most of the time a big nuisance.
> The translator must have the choice as to which charset to use (there
> are still some languages which cannot be represented in Unicode) and
> the user must be able to run the application in whatever locale is
> best.  The gettext functions handle every situation just fine without
> bind_textdomain_codeset calls.
> 

If the language cannot be represented in unicode then the language is
already in big trouble due to practicly exlcusive use of unicode...

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