Re: gtk2, gettext and accentuated characters...

[Vincent Torri <torri math u-strasbg fr>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tim [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 00:48, Vincent Torri invite Th. Colin wrote:
>
> > Well, Everything works fine except accentuated characters. For
exemple,
> > instead of é, i get two characters that are not on my keyboard :)
> >
> > (snip)
> >
> > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n"
> >
> > (snip)
> >
> > root_menu = gtk_menu_item_new_with_mnemonic
> > (g_locale_to_utf8(_("_Preferences"), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL));
>
> As far as I can see, this assumes that the user's locale is actually set to 
> ISO-8859-1 (i.e. the same character set encoding that you use in your .po 
> file), which need not necessarily be the case [*]. You can save yourself a 
> lot of trouble if you use UTF-8 encoding for your .po files from the start.
>
> Also note that the above code leaks memory, as g_locale_to_utf8() returns a 
> newly-allocated string.
>
> Cheers
> -Tim
>
> [*] it could be set to UTF-8 for example, in which case g_locale_to_utf8() 
> wouldn't do anything at all, and you would end up passing the ISO-8859-1 
> encoded string from the .po file to a function that expects an UTF-8 encoded 
> string.

OK, it works now. Thanks ! I don't understand well unicode, but it works
:) 

i really think that there should be a doc/howto about gtk, autoconf,
gettext, and utf8. I have succeeded thanks to an howto, several programs,
some mailing lists (and the po files of gtk). And your help.
Perhaps i will write it one day.

Vincent TORRI