Re: libglade - "not proper UTF-8" warning

[volodya mindspring com]

On 5 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> "Dr. Simon J. Melhuish" <simon melhuish net> writes: 
> > Thanks for that. 
> >
> > OK, I see what is causing it now. I have two labels that contain a
> > degree symbol (radio buttons for Celcius or Fahrenheit). Is there an
> > easy way I can get the desired label, such that it will look OK under
> > varying locale settings? Presumably my label might come out funny when a
> > alphabet other than Latin is set if I just update it at run time.
>
> With the upcoming GTK 2.0, what you'd do is simply encode the degree
> symbol in UTF-8. With 1.2, since Glade saves a UTF-8 output file, it

A question: what fonts would GTK 2.0 rely upon for Unicode ? 
As far as I know there aren't any good ones in standard XFree. (I.e. 
either truetype or outline+bitmaps).

         thank you

                Vladimir Dergachev

> should probably go ahead and convert from the locale's encoding to
> UTF-8 on save, and libglade should convert back to the locale's
> encoding on load. This could probably be considered a Glade bug, you
> might ask on the Glade list about it.
>
> Leaving Glade aside, what you would typically do in GTK 1.2 is
> probably to put a string valid in the C locale in your source code,
> and then use gettext() to let translators translate it into other
> locales, using the proper encoding for that locale.
>
> In 2.0, the encoding is UTF-8 regardless of locale, so you'd just
> encode the degree symbol in UTF-8.
>
> Havoc
>
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