Re: Localization and accented chars

[BoÅtjan ÅpetiÄ <igzebedze auch eu org>]

> I have localized my Gtk2 app in this way:
>
> ********************
> use Locale::gettext;
> use POSIX qw(setlocale);
> use Encode qw(decode);
>
> sub _ {return decode("iso-8859-1",dgettext( PACKAGE,$_[0]));}
> setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
> textdomain(PACKAGE);

i think the problem is in the decode('iso...') function - you really cannot predict what encoding the users 
will use - it might aswell be utf8...

> $string = _("Generic message");
> ********************************
> It works fine, but users reports problems with accented language in
> french and with Umlats in german. I have tested them on my system
> (italian locale) and they work fine.
> What else can I do?

regards, bostjan