Re: String Encocoding in Gtk-Perl: Hoping for Clarification

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 10:49 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote:

> Don't know if this is actually related to your problem, but from my
> experience GTK or Gnome itself does not support UTF-8 but only single
> byte charsets,

this is utterly wrong. GTK+ *only* uses UTF-8, and that's prominently
displayed in the documentation.

>  so you need to convert to a single-byte encoding that
> is able to be rendered by Gnome. This is what I do for example:
>
> use Encode;
>
> [...]
>
> my $msg = "UTF-8 TEXT";
>
> Encode::from_to($msg,'utf8','iso-8859-1');
>
>   my $dialog = Gtk2::MessageDialog->new ($parent,
>                                          'destroy-with-parent',
>                                          'question',
>                                          'yes-no',
>                                          $msg);

absolutely wrong.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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