Re: Chinese and Japanese (and Korean?) breakage in GNOME2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes: 
> Well, actually, if we want to support non-GNU gettext, or older GNU
> gettext, we can't rely on bind_textdomain_codeset(); instead we have
> to:
> 
>  a) ship UTF-8 .po files
>  b) call bind_textdomain_codeset() if available so that strings don't
>     get translated back from UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale.
> 
> This is what GTK+ does.

I think that's too complicated for people to get right (involves
configure checks, etc.) and translators seem to dislike the UTF-8 po
files thing.

We probably need to either automate this, or require new GNU gettext.

Havoc