On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:34:56PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > 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).
C locale does not define characters beyond ASCII (it does not even define ASCII IIRC), so even simple things like é can work just by coincidence. And I don't think you are actually using C locale, because if I try it and use g_locale_to_utf8() with 8bit characters in C locale, it fails (correctly). > I suspected this, but when I call locale-to-utf8, I get something like > ?<copyright>. Not calling locale-to-utf8 works fine, but I'll have to > escape all special characters, probably even simple things like 'é'. You can write in UTF-8 directly (I'd recommend that) or you can mix the approaches, but convert from a particular charset with g_convert() then, not from locale. I suppose you want to convert from ISO-8859-1. > A question: What happens if the destination machine doesn't have the > sophisticated Ohms sign? Or even the Omega? Depending on the font rendering backend... well, you'll probably get those nice boxes with hexadeciaml character codes. 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
