Re: [gtkmm] Gtkmm or Qt?

[Dr Mark H Phillips <mark austrics com au>]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 01:25, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Are you talking about having a translated application? gettext is
> normally used for that, and is quite convenient to use.
> 
> If you're talking about support for other charsets than ASCII and
> such, gtkmm derives its support more or less "under the hood" from GTK
> which I believe has outstanding support for such things.

Thanks.  I'm talking about both really.  We already have some
in-house translation code, but it probably would be better to move
either to Qt's translation facilities, or to some other similar
widely-used library.  We should also support unicode so we can
display more languages.

gettext seems to be GPL which is no good for us.  Is there any
similar library out there which may be used with a non-free
application?

As for Unicode, it sounds like this is covered by Gtk+.

So far my understanding of how Qt compares with Gtkmm in the
internationalization stakes is:

               Unicode        translation library      translation tools
Qt       : fully supported            yes                 Qt Linguist
Gtk based: fully supported GPL-gettext LGPL-don't know    don't know

Can anyone fill me in on the two "don't know" areas above?

Thanks,

Mark.