[Gaim-i18n] Re: Translatable strftime() format strings?

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

Sorry for the bad threading...

I marked "%x %X" and "%B %Y" as translatable "Just In Case" it was
necessary for some language to have those in a different order or with
other stuff around them... From the discussion here, it seems like that
was a good idea.

I did not mark %x, %X, or %c by themselves, as those should be handled
properly by the C library. If they're not, I'd say it should be fixed
there. However, I've created the various gaim_{date,time} functions with
the intention that signals could be added to them, similar to what we do
with the message/logging timestamps. Then, plugins could override the
handling of the date formatting. I'd like to see us honor the GNOME and
KDE settings when running under one of those environments, for example.

On a related note... What charset does gettext() return strings in? The
man page says :

RETURN VALUE
       If a translation was found in one of the specified catalogs, it
is converted to the locale=E2=80=99s codeset and returned.

However, we use _("Some string") in all sorts of places (e.g. GTK+
functions) that expect UTF-8.

I ask because we shouldn't be passing UTF-8 to strftime(). So, if
gettext() returns UTF-8 in non-UTF-8 locales, then I need to convert it
in gaim_utf8_strftime(). However, if gettext() does behave as the man
page suggests, doesn't that cause problems with GTK+?

Richard