Re: Two questions

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:54:51 +0800
Wang Jian <lark@linux.net.cn> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am the zh_CN translation coordinator. I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Is it ok to convert all zh_CN translation (gb2312 encoding) to
>    UTF-8? I mean for both GNOME 1.4.x and GNOME 2.x. I don't want to
>    break anything.

Hi, about Japanese team policy, .po is translated in

GNOME 1.4 - ja_JP.eucJP (legacy locale)
GNOME 2.0 - ja_JP.UTF-8

> 2. Does positional argument (like %2$s %1$s) works for gtk+ 's printf
>    function family? Positional arguments are very important for zh_CN.
>    I always see warnings about positional arguments when running gnome
>    applications.

It doesn't work. Try to insert rows in Gnumeric in zh_CN and you'll see
gnumeric crashes.

You should not use it until some fix-around commited in glib.

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Yukihiro Nakai