Re: GLib gettext and UTF-8

[John Vetterli <jvetterli linux ca>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, The Saltydog wrote:
> On 9/27/05, David Rosal <david rosal upf edu> wrote:
> > In my GTK2 program, I use the macro _(str) to translate the strings.
> > "str" is in english (ASCII), but the translation may be encoded in an
> > arbitrary codeset (e.g. ISO-8859-1 or KOI-8...). The question is: Does
> > the glib macro _(str) convert the strings to UTF-8 encoding, or I have
> > to make g_locale_to_utf8(_(str), ...) everytime I have to deal with a
> > translatable string?
> you should ask translators to use UTF-8 encoding, and set it in the
> .po file settings.

Have a look at the manpage for bind_textdomain_codeset.  In a nutshell, 
calling:
        bind_textdomain_codeset ("mydomain", "UTF-8")
will cause gettext to convert all translated strings to UTF-8 before 
returning them.

JV