Re: [Libexif-devel] Character sets in libexif, exif, GTK and other applications

[Hans U. N. <gp...@n-...>]

Lutz M=C3=BCller <lu...@us...> writes:

> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 20:33 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
>> Then libexif must tell the frontend the gettext domain libexif uses,
>> which IMHO isn't the frontend's business.
>> const char *exif_set_message_codeset(const char *codeset)
>> const char *exif_init_gettext(void)
>
> I don't like the static variable in exif_init_gettext at all. Is

(Note for reference: "static" means "global" here.)

Why don't you like it?

bindtextdomain() itself affects global settings by definition.

So having a global flag saying whether we initialized all that global
stuff yet or not makes sense, IMHO.

> "bindtextdomain" that expensive that we can't call it in every function
> that returns strings?

IMHO, yes. It has to search the filesystem for files.

> If people would like to optimize libexif for
> speed, they'd compile libexif without NLS anyways.=20

Or do things which need to be done once only once instead of dozens of
times. Apart from that, some of those i18n functions are a little
picky when being called multiple times in the same program.

Uli