From: Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger@web.de)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 12:30:16 EDT
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:10:31PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 11:58, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > Does gettext support the UTF-32 character encoding and the UCS-4 characters
> > AW apparently is going to (begin to) use?
>
> AFAIK, gettext can handle only the char datatype. However, you can store
> encoded text inside of the file. So we could have, for example, UTF-8
> text stored inside of the .po file. We could then convert that to a
> native locale, UTF-32, or whatever else we'd like to as needed quite
> easily.
Afaik gettext can do it itself. Also, the .po file can be in UTF-32 (I
think - at least you can specify an encoding for it).
To get the text as UTF-8, you'd do:
bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, GNOMELOCALEDIR);
bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
textdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
(copied from gnome-pim's gnome2 port)
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