Re: YAB

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 31 Oct 2003, Mårten Svantesson wrote:
> Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> writes:
>
>> On 15 Oct 2003, Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
>>> Yet another small bug in 0.92-pre7: the help texts in the
>>> sections 'Help options' and 'Application options' produced
>>> by 'dia --help' do not get converted into the current locale
>>> (texts in other sections are correctly converted).
>>
>> I don't quite get what you're referring to here.
>
> He is probably referring to the fact that all dia-specific text given
> by --help is given in UTF-8 in all locales. When I use dia in a
> swedish locale with iso8859-1 as character set the swedish characters
> (åäö) are shown wrong.

It appears that there is little to do about this.  Since GTK2 is all UTF-8,
we have to have strings in UTF-8 internally.  While we can convert strings
that we output ourselves to the local encoding, the --help text is output
by popt, which cannot do such conversion.

-Lars

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