Re: Translating The GIMP

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> Kaixo!
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:50:54PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> > (3) We need to handle the UTF-8 problem somehow. GTK+-2.0 solved
> >     this by keeping UTF-8 encoded po files in the tree and I do
> >     like this solution but I'm open for suggestions.
> 
> it is not needed to convert to UTF-8; providing the charset info in the
> header is enough, gettext() will do the conversion at runtime depending
> on the requested charset at display time (so, as long as gtk+ 2 asks
> to display in utf-8 it will be transparent).

why should we do the conversion at runtime if we can do it at build time?
I only see the performance disadvantage of an additional conversion while
I don't see any advantages. Try to persuade me by showing me one.


Salut, Sven