Re: Two questions

[Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:53:56 +0800 (HKT)
"R.I.P. Deaddog" <maddog@linuxhall.org> wrote:

> 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?

We do not recommend GNOME 1.4.x with UTF8 locale,
and GNOME2 with UTF8 ja.po works fine here with 0.10.38.

> > > 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?

See this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55106

I've no idea about glib 1.3.x.

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Nakai