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this didn't cause me any problems yesterday, and it compiles, and bug fixing is a good thing.
"Some month ago I introduced translatable texts for "gaim --help" and
"gaim-remote --help".
Unfortunately the output of the translated text is often unreadable.
The problem is, that Gaim's *.po files have the UTF-8 locale (because
this is the default charset for GTK+ 2.0). But the users may have
configured other locales. For instance my SuSE Linux 9.0 system is
configured with LANG=de_DE@euro. "euro" is ISO-8859-1 (Western
character set, 8 Bit, with the Euro currency symbol). Lots of UTF-8
characters are unreadable if they are displayed in a 8 Bit charset
without conversion. Only the 7 Bit chars are displayed right.
There are two possible solutions:
1) Make the console texts untranslatable. This isn't very clever.
2) Convert the texts from UTF-8 to user's locale.
I choose the second solution.
The conversion cannot be made during the translation, because gettext
does not allow a mix of different character sets in one po-file.
My patch converts the console strings from UTF-8 to users locale.
Normally this works right, because most users have a locale which is
compatible with their language.
The case where a user uses a language (for instance German:
LANG=de_DE) with an incompatible character set (for instance the 7Bit
charset LC_CTYPE=C) is also handled. The user then sees a warning and
the original UTF-8 message.
At first I tried to make a new UTF-8 function in src/util.c. But the
function is needed 5 times in src/gaim-remote.c and 2 times in
src/main.c. gaim-remote is not linked against util.o. Also there are a
lot of dependencies from util.o to other files, so I will introduce a
lot of trouble to link gaim-remote against util.o.
So I only wrote a function in src/gaim-remote.c and used the UTF-8
conversion inline in src/main.c." --Bjoern Voigt
committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author | Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im> |
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date | Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:21:55 +0000 |
parents | 6d59800ace03 |
children | 0371ed7ed3ad |
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EXTRA_DIST = \ Doxyfile.in \ gaim.spec.in \ gaim.desktop \ gaim2blt.pl \ gaim-installer.nsi \ HACKING \ PROGRAMMING_NOTES \ licq2gaim.pl \ setup-gettext \ ChangeLog.win32 \ config.h.mingw \ Makefile.mingw \ README.mingw \ VERSION \ plugins/win32/transparency/Makefile.mingw \ plugins/win32/transparency/win2ktrans.c \ plugins/win32/winprefs/gtkappbar.c \ plugins/win32/winprefs/gtkappbar.h \ plugins/win32/winprefs/Makefile.mingw \ plugins/win32/winprefs/winprefs.c \ po/Makefile.mingw dist-hook: gaim.spec cp gaim.spec $(distdir) distcheck-hook: plugins/perl/common/Gaim.pm # cp plugins/perl/common/Gaim.pm $(distdir)/plugins/perl/common appsdir = $(datadir)/applications apps_DATA = gaim.desktop SUBDIRS = sounds plugins pixmaps doc po intl src docs: Doxyfile @doxygen