On 27/04/2011 21:56, Gerald Britton wrote:
> Does anyone know if a tooltip string, generated from glade file, is of
> type string or unicode.
>
> I think that the string must be unicode when calling gettext and the
> string contains non ascii
> characters.
Just to be sure we're not going to get confused there's an
important little fact to deal with here: GTK+ requires us to
call bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, 'UTF-8'). See the second
paragraph in section 1.7 of [1]. With that taken care of:
Depends on how you want to access said string:
- gtk.Widget.get_tooltip_(text|markup) returns an utf-8 encoded str.
- Python's gettext.ugettext() always returns a unicode
- Python's gettext.gettext() always returns an encoded 8-bit str
-> This is explained in the second paragraph of [2].
The case of gettext.gettext() is going to be utf-8 encoded
due to the bind_textdomain_codeset() call explained above.
I've poured everything I've learned about gettext/libintl and how
it interacts with GTK+ into a reusable module availeble at [3].
It also contains some code to get translated strings from
GtkBuilder/libglade files working on Windows. Maybe it can be
of some use...
> At least it is so for tooltips generated in python code.
That's surprising. I've always worked with plain (utf-8 encoded)
strings. Then again all my Python source files have
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the beginning of the file and gettext/libintl
are always initialized with bind_textdomain_codeset(domain, 'UTF-8').
mvg,
Dieter
[1] http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-question-index.html
[2] http://docs.python.org/library/gettext.html#the-gnutranslations-class
[3]
https://github.com/dieterv/elib.intl/blob/master/lib/elib/intl/__init__.py
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