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

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

Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> 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.

Ahh, I didn't understand your question the first time around.  This is
kind of ugly.

> I imagine the correct approach is this:
>=20
> 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.

Yeah, this might be the best way to do it ... but it's disgusting.
The Right Way to do it would be to set the locale to a UTF-8 locale
within Gaim, but unfortunately locale names are not at all portable.
I just poked through the locale functions, and didn't see a good way
to bind the current charset to UTF-8 regardless of locale.  Ugh.

Ethan

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