Re: Volunteer needed (was Re: Short question about german special characters with GTK 2)

[Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix debian org>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:36:06AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> It would be wonderful if someone would:
>
>  - Write up a FAQ entry on this
>
>    (Maybe explain what is UTF-8, that GTK+ uses UTF-8 everywhere,
>     short example of g_locale_to_utf8(), short example of g_convert(),
>     mention that you could just encode your source file as 
>     UTF-8 if your editor supports it.)
>
>  - File it as a bug in bugzilla, CC'ing gale gtk org
>
> This certainly seems to be the most frequently asked question
> these days.

Actually, if the OP would do proper i18n/l10n initialization with gettext,
and mark the strings for translation instead of passing them in as-is,
would this still be a problem?

> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:03, Christian Schneider wrote:
> > dateiauswahl = gtk_file_selection_new ("Auswahl der zu
> > übertragenden Datei");

This may work:

bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8"); /* <-- This is the one */
textdomain (PACKAGE);
...
dateiauswahl = gtk_file_selection_new (_("...übertragenden Datei"));

Don't forget to define PACKAGE & LOCALEDIR and _().

I said "may work", because in my case I'm passing in plain ASCII strings
and the latin-1 ones are in the .po files. Does anyone know if it still
works when passing in latin-1 in the code itself?


Regards,

Filip

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