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

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> 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+?

There is no reason not to pass UTF-8 to strftime.  In UTF-8, % and all
of the specifier letters have the same codepoint as ASCII.

Gettext returns locale-specific strings, which is why the character
set of the translation strings must be specified in the .pofile -- it
has to know.  I am not sure how Gtk+ handles this; perhaps it assumes
that the incoming strings are in the locale charset if they don't
validate as UTF-8?  I know that Gtk+ _does_ work in non-UTF-8 locales
with non-ASCII characters, so...

Ethan

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