Re: how to international GTK app

[bheemesh <bheemesh prodigylabs com>]

Hi,
First of all this link is more generic in internationalization of gtk applns:

	http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/


> here, but I have a GTK application completed but would like to enable it
> to handle other languages (that is, other languages as input, and not with
> respect to how the dialog boxes, pull-down boxes, etc. look like -- the
> latter can remain in English).  So yes, I made the mistake of writing an
> app with English in mind at first, and now, have to go back fixing all the
> places where I made short cuts with the distinction between characters and
> bytes.
>
> 	Is anyone aware of a how-to which explains how one could port a
> GTK app in this way?  That is, what to look out for?  And if not, could
> someone point me into a direction within the API docs where I should
> concentrate on?  As an example of how lost I am, I don't even know whether
> to look in the GTK, GDK, or pango documentation, though all 3 seem
> relevant.  Thank you!
>

May be a study on Unicode related stuffs would be a worth read:
	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Rest about speaking the API's in GTK & pango is avialable in the respective 
reference manuals on web.

cheers,
bheemesh.