Re: [Gaim-devel] simple patch for gtk2-enabled gaim

[Kang Jeong-H. <Ke...@ma...>]

On 2002.09.03 01:44 Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:48:21AM +0900, Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> > aim.c have to activate UTF-8 conversion for gettext.
> > 
> > msn.c should not convert UTF-8 to native locale for displaying.
> > gtk2 is always display in UTF-8.
> 
> what effect would these changes have on persons not using the same locale setting to converse?
> what effect would it have on people not using nls at all (but who didn't disable it at compile time)
> what effect would this have on protocols besides msn?
> luke

1. other protocols
it seems that two of protocols: jabber, msn are using utf8.
and others not.
I don't know much of this locale issue.
but, it was also problem if on gtk1, right?
what should it be Arabic letter on my EUC-KR environment,
even without utf8-aware?
if each protocol provide encoding information,
the conversion to utf8 have to refer the encoding for FROM.

anyway, utf8 is future of encoding, and presence of gtk2.

2. nls-disabled
I just tried LANG=C gaim and it's ok. by the power of utf8.
if (a) locale-to-utf8 conversion is ok and (b) fontconfig is ok
there's no problem whether nls on or off, I believe.

regard.