Re: What encoding to use for the translations

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
> Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk> writes:
> 
> > Why cant we use gettext to automatically convert to utf-8 when needed?
> > The automatic conversion is an integral part of gettext as of today.
> 
> Yes.  Someone has to check whether it will work for GTK programs and
> non-GNU/Linux systems, too.
> 
> You're right, it works nicely for console programs using glibc-2.2.2.
> 

Avoiding the conversion is probably faster and saves memory anyhow,
though.

Havoc