Re: Arabic-Indic digits and g_date_strftime()

[Gaurav Jain <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

Thanks Behdad for the quick response.

-Gaurav

On 9/30/05, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to print a date onto a GtkLabel in "ar_SA" (arabic) locale.
> For
> > this, I'm using the API g_date_strftime(), in which the format being
> passed
> > is "%c" (to use the current locale's prefered format).
> >
> > The problem is that the output generated is a corrupt value, such as
> > "[??????? %.1d ????? 2005 %.1H:00:00] (the ? stands for an arabic
> character,
> > which is probably fine, but the actual corruption is due to the unwanted
> > "%.1d" and "%.1H" in the output). What I really want is the Arabic-Indic
> > representation of the date, in which all the numerals are in the
> > arabic-indic digits, but this is obviously not producing that.
> >
> > Could any one point out what I'm doing wrong here (or how to achive my
> > goal)?
>
> 1. That's not quite supported yet, we are working on supporting
> in it for Persian, which affects other languages too.
>
> 2. Said support will only be available on Glibc. (until Project
> Giulia produces some output...)
>
> 3. Even then, the ar_SA locale should define a local digit set
> and this is not currently the case.
>
> Summary: Not possible at this time. But hey, check first with
> the Arab community. I'm not quite sure that using those digits
> is actually preferred at all.
>
> behdad
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> > Thanks,
> > Gaurav
> >
> > ---sample program that I'm using follows ------
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> > #include <gdk/gdk.h>
> > #include <locale.h>
> >
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> > GtkWidget *window;
> > GtkWidget *vbox, *hbox;
> > GtkWidget *label;
> >
> > /* set the default locale - ar_SA for this particular test */
> > setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> >
> > /* generate the date string */
> > char buffer[400] = "";
> > char format[] = "%c";
> >
> > char *utf8_format = g_locale_to_utf8(format, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> > GDate dateRec;
> > dateRec.day = 30;
> > dateRec.month = 9;
> > dateRec.year = 2005;
> >
> > if (g_date_strftime(buffer, sizeof(buffer), utf8_format, &dateRec) == 0)
> > buffer[0] = '\0';
> > printf("buffer is [%s]\n", buffer);
> >
> > gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
> >
> > /* create a new window */
> > window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> > gtk_widget_set_size_request (GTK_WIDGET (window), 200, 100);
> > gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Date");
> > g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
> > G_CALLBACK (gtk_main_quit), NULL);
> > g_signal_connect_swapped (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event",
> > G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
> > G_OBJECT (window));
> >
> > vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0);
> > gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox);
> > gtk_widget_show (vbox);
> >
> > /* create new label with the date buffer */
> > label = gtk_label_new(buffer);
> >
> > gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox), label, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
> > gtk_widget_show (label);
> >
> > hbox = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 0);
> > gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (vbox), hbox);
> > gtk_widget_show (hbox);
> >
> > gtk_widget_show (window);
> >
> > gtk_main();
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
>
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/