Re: what is the encoding of text in gtk?

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tis 2003-01-21 klockan 00.40 skrev Ben Wing:
> hello, i'm the main author of the i18n support in XEmacs and i'm trying to fix
> up the gtk support in XEmacs to be i18n-correct.  unfortunately, i didn't write
> the support (that was done by Bill Perry), and i don't understand gtk very well.
> i couldn't find any documentation on how strings are encoded.  however, it
> appears from reading the source code that strings in gtk 2 are in utf-8 and
> strings in gtk 1 are in the locale-specific encoding.  is this correct?  in all
> cases?  all api's? (e.g. gdk_*, gtk_*, gnome_*, etc.) does this include
> selection data, drag-n-drop data, etc.?  any specific weirdnesses i should know
> about?  finally, is it correct to check gtk_major_version >= 2 to determine
> whether to use utf-8?
> 
> thanks for your help.  please make sure my email is in the to: or cc: since i'm
> not on this list.

Hi Ben!
I don't doubt you'll get some useful answers from people on this list,
but general gtk i18n coding questions are probably better served by the
gtk-i18n@gnome.org mailing list
(http://lists.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list).
This list (gnome-i18n@gnome.org) is more aimed at the translation and
localization of GNOME applications.


Cheers,
Christian