Re: glade localization woes

Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> writes:

> It seems that there is a bug in gettext. Perl has two types of
> strings -- octet streams and unicode. It's a mess, sometimes. Read
> the perlunicode manpage to find more about it. Now what really
> should be done is forcing gettext to mark the string as unicode one
> if it is one.
> 
> > Is it anything I'm doing wrong, or is it a Perl Glade bug (which
> > is what I'm inclined to believe)?
> 
> No. It's a gettext bug. It returns unicode string, but does not mark
> it as such. And all the glib-perl/gtk2-perl/gtk2-glade-perl stuff
> honors that marks.

gettext hasn't to tag a perl string as utf8 since it's not aware of
perl internals and you cannot expect it from doing so.

you need to call "some_module::bind_textdomain_codeset("mydomain",
'UTF8');" in order to get utf8 strings

with this functions defined in a xs as:

>==================================================>
> char *                                           >
> bind_textdomain_codeset(domainname, codeset)     >
>    char * domainname                             >
>    char * codeset                                >
>==================================================>

and then you've to tag strings as utf8

see N() implementation in common.pm from drakx installer and tools:

common.pm
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