On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:04:03 +0200 "David Necas (Yeti)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:40:38AM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > Of all things, I didn't think this would be so difficult. I want to > > put a string on the screen with electrical units, and the Ohms-(Omega) > > character. I normally write characters in the locale set and then call > > g_locale_to_utf8, but I can't find the character Omega in the local > > set (0xBD is occupied with the 1/2 symbol). > > If I understand correctly, you write strings in your > compile-time locale charset and then convert these > strings from run-time locale charset to UTF-8 with > g_locale_to_utf8(). > > This is borken (beside inefficient), as these two locales > can easily differ. Don't do that (and if you do that, be > prepared people from non-Western countries will hate you). Hello Yeti. Thanks for the reply, I've never really thought much about about the consequences of using the locale to generate programs (in my defense:the locale is 'C' which should be available everywhere). > You can always write UTF-8 characters expanded with escapes > "\xe2\x84\xa6" (this is Ohm sign which is different from > capital Omega "\xce\xa9", BTW) if you don't want to use > UTF-8 directly, which is no problem nowadays. I suspected this, but when I call locale-to-utf8, I get something like Ï<copyright>. Not calling locale-to-utf8 works fine, but I'll have to escape all special characters, probably even simple things like 'é'. A question: What happens if the destination machine doesn't have the sophisticated Ohms sign? Or even the Omega? Thanks, John > > Yeti > > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
