Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should explicitly care about it

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

> P.S. I strongly support the idea of full-time i18n hacker for Gnome.

Hm, you seems good, but how about the most rest of Ximians?
 
> Best wishes,
> Lauris Kaplinski
> 
> On 22 Mar 2001 22:06:39 +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Fatih Demir wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:57:42PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > > [ job searching... ] 
> > > > What do you think about all this?
> > > 
> > > Nice to know, but there's also the problem, that non-iso-latin or whatever
> > >  users do rarely report bugs or contact the authors/developers in such cases.
> > >
> > 
> >  I think they just gave up any hopes... In a lot of cases authors/developers
> > don't know how to fix the problem either since they don't have i18n-related
> > experience.. In some cases developers answer "it's post-gtk-2.0 task"..
> > 
> > > As gtranslator's author, I'll always try to solve such prob's, but there 
> > >  hasn't been any such bug report yet.
> > 
> >  OK, I can post a bugreport against every package that has i18n problems - but 
> > will it help anybody if mostly nobody cares about i18n?
> > 
> >  Unfortunately I'm 99% sure that every app that exports/imports file of
> > wide-spread format or communicates using standartized protocol containing
> > textual data or that uses custom widgets has severe problems with i18n and
> > unusable for non-latin1 users.
> > 
> > For example: evolution just sticks iso8859-1 charset in mail headers it sends
> > (this means nobody can read mails sent with Evo if it contains anything than
> > iso-8859-1), dia (user just can't load files at all (!) that were saved under
> > russian locale), sodipodi (it always assumes that locale uses iso8859-1), 
> > balsa - that's 4 software packages of 4 that meet my "i18n-fragile programs"
> > I tried but not fixed - all of them are totally unusable for russian. 
> > 
> > > -- 
> > > kabalak / kabalak@kabalak.net / Fatih Demir
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> > 
> >  Best regards,
> >   -Vlad
> > 
> > 
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