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

[Luke S. <lsc...@re...>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:00:29AM +0900, Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> 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.

yes, so in order to make the core use utf8, a patch would have to stop jabber from translating just
as your stops msn, and would also have to translate the others TO utf8.  

> I don't know much of this locale issue.
> but, it was also problem if on gtk1, right?

no, because the protocols translated it out of utf8.

> 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.

gtk2 uses pango though for this, which your patch (continues) to avoid. 
i _think_ the proper solution might be to have gaim use pango instead of 
trying to use utf8 directly. 
luke

> 
> 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.

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