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

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

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:09 +0100, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> I also do not see a solution in converting the UTF-8 date/time string
> before passing into strftime(). Since the UTF-8 chars are needed (for
> instance in Chinese), you had to convert the charset twice:
> 1) UTF-8 (gettext-output) to ASCII (strftime-input)
> 2) ASCII to UTF-8 (strftime-out) to GTK+

Not ASCII, but locale format.

The formatters passed to strftime() expand to strings in locale format.
Thus, to use them in Gaim, we convert the output of strftime() to UTF-8.

Now, what happens if we pass in a UTF-8 string (including formatters) to
strftime()? We get output that consists of a combination of locale and
UTF-8 format.

Obviously, this works if the locale format is UTF-8. But, if the local
format is an 8 bit character set, it seems to me like things wouldn't
work.

I imagine the correct approach is this:

1. Pass the format string from Gaim to gettext().
2. Convert the output from gettext() from UTF-8 to locale format.
3. Pass the translated, locale-converted string to strftime().
4. Convert the output of strftime() back to UTF-8.

Thoughts?

Richard