Re: gettext usage in libraries

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> 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...

I don't know of *any* examples of this among existing written "primary"
languages.  Please give an example of a language that has neither an
approved nor a proposed unicode code page...

??

-Bill