Re: Two questions

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog linuxhall org>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Yukihiro Nakai wrote:

> > 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

For Gnome 1.4.x, converting everything to UTF8 would break a lot of
things. How it goes for Gnome 2.0 is unknown to me; anyone knows more on
this matter?


> > 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.

For glib 1.2.x this seems to be a no-go, it's documented in glib source;
anybody knows if it works for glib 1.3.x?

Abel