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

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

So what is the conclusion?

There is no reason to reject UTF-8 .po files if it works completely with GNOME2.

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Nakai

On 25 Jan 2002 21:42:12 -0500
Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:

> 
> 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
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