Re: Two questions



El mar, 22-01-2002 a las 17:01, Gediminas Paulauskas escribió:

[...]

> > 
> > We must use UTF-8 for all .po files before GNOME 2.0 release.
> 
> 
> No, you a wrong. There is no need to convert translations to UTF-8. Whatever 
>   charset a .mo file is in, glibc automatically converts it to locale 
> encoding, or, if the app say say to gettext so -- in UTF-8. All apps using 
> Gtk+2.0 must do that, i.e. call
> 
> bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> 
> so that they get all text in UTF-8. Coverting string on the way from .mo 
> file to app is a work of glibc or gettext, which do not change from Gnome 1 
> to Gnome 2 in any way.

You MUST use UTF-8 for all .po files before GNOME 2.0 release if you
want all Linux/BSD/* users that are not using glibc >= 2.2 could use
GNOME 2.0

Cheers

> 
> -- 
> Gediminas
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Carlos Perelló Marín
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