Re: en_US.po

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:56, Noah Levitt wrote:

> Is there a problem with documentation strings using
> non-ascii characters?

I think that should be fine.

> I'm not quite sure what the conclusion is about console
> strings. Are you saying there aren't any?

No ... I'd consider the gdk-pixbuf GError strings to be 
potentially console strings.

> To my surprise, this code
> 
>   g_print ("foo ª»ÌÝÝî ‘ooo’\n");
> 
> gave me this output 
> 
>   foo ?????? ?ooo?
> 
> with the locale set to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> I wonder what this means for other languages and encodings. 

You probably forgot the setlocale() in your test case.
(gtk_init() does it for you automatically.)

Regards,
                                 Owen