Subject: Re: how should we localize locale names?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 11:41:05 CST
At 01:23 PM 3/8/01 +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> My hope is that there shouldn't be much of a charset issue here, since the
>> strings import mechanisms (via expat at least) are already
encoding-savvy.
>> However, we may need to do some platform-specific trickery to get the
>> resulting UCS2 strings to sort and display properly on the resulting menus
>> and/or dialogs.
>
> As for this - it's already working AFAIR (I coded that) - all strings
(EXCEPT
>the ones in menus) are translated to current charset when showing. I will
>prepare a patch (beofe next release) to make MENU translations automatically
>translatable to system charset too (it's required for russian, it has 4 (!)
>encodings, of which 2 are equally wide spread).
Excellent! I'd wondered if we'd eventually run into encoding problems for
menus or toolbars. Thanks for taking care of it.
Paul
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