Re: Localization and accented chars

[The Saltydog <thesaltydog gmail com>]

If I remove that line and leave utf-8, I don't see the chars on my
system. In any case, I am speaking of localizations like italia,
german, dutch and french, and they all are in the iso-8859-1 area...



On 5/27/05, Boštjan Špetič <igzebedze auch eu org> wrote:
> > 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
>
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