Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

2008/5/7 Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort brutele be>:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:02:02 +0100
>  Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>
>  >
>  > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>  > > Bastien Nocera wrote:
>  > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  > > >> Hi,
>  > > >>
>  > > >> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
>  > > >> <felipe contreras gmail com> wrote:
>  > > >>>  Is there any reason?
>  > > >>>
>  > > >> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
>  > > >> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
>  > > >> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
>  > > >> bug discussion.
>  > > >
>  > > > And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
>  > > > it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
>  > > > on Unix systems without NLS support.
>  > >
>  > > Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded
>  > > systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their
>  > > application and use a different translation framework.
>  >
>  > And it means that a lot of convenience functions for UTF-8 handling
>  > wouldn't work.
>
>  Just FYI, that's not true. The GLib Unicode code does not require
>  gettext. Unicode support and message translation support are two
>  entirely different matters.

Exactly.

AFAIK the only effect is that the messages from GLib won't be
translated. For clients using the library there's no difference at
all.

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Felipe Contreras