Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> writes:
It seems that there is a bug in gettext. Perl has two types of strings -- octet streams and unicode. It's a mess, sometimes. Read the perlunicode manpage to find more about it. Now what really should be done is forcing gettext to mark the string as unicode one if it is one.Is it anything I'm doing wrong, or is it a Perl Glade bug (which is what I'm inclined to believe)?No. It's a gettext bug. It returns unicode string, but does not mark it as such. And all the glib-perl/gtk2-perl/gtk2-glade-perl stuff honors that marks.
gettext hasn't to tag a perl string as utf8 since it's not aware of
perl internals and you cannot expect it from doing so.
you need to call "some_module::bind_textdomain_codeset("mydomain",
'UTF8');" in order to get utf8 strings
with this functions defined in a xs as:
==================================================> char * > bind_textdomain_codeset(domainname, codeset) > char * domainname > char * codeset > ==================================================>
and then you've to tag strings as utf8 see N() implementation in common.pm from drakx installer and tools:
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