i18n printing

[Tomas Pluskal <plusik pohoda cz>]

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Hello,

I am referring to a former thread:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2002-March/msg00038.html

I would like to make a little summary:

1) MOTIVATION: gnumeric doesn't print international characters on FreeBSD

2) CAUSE: in the print_show() function, it is using OS mbstowcs() function
to translate current locale's characters to UNICODE, and then a simple
function to translate to UTF8, which is needed by gnome-print. This works
on linux, but it's not a standard according to POSIX (see the former
thread), so it probably won't work on more platforms

3) SOLUTION: as I've found, glib2 contains nice functions like
g_locale_to_utf8(), which would fit here perfectly. But I don't know if
gnumeric is moving towards glib2. Other solution is iconv, but I am not
sure how portable this is. I have made a little hack for myself with
iconv (because I need to print Czech characters), but I am not that good
coder to make a clean patch for gnumeric.

Is there anybody willing to do this ?

bye

Tomas Pluskal

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