[Freeciv-Dev] Re: GTK+ 2.0 client port

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:01:10AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:32:00AM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have been porting the GTK+ client to GTK+ 2.0, and starting with GTK+
> > 2.0 all strings should be stored as UTF-8.
> > UTF-8 includes ASCII as a subset as you probably know.
> > 
> > Therefore i propose we store all the .po files in UTF-8 format. This will
> > reduce the miriad of encodings we use in the translation files to just
> > one. We have to take care to make the server compatible with these
> > changes.
> 
> What about the Xaw client?
You can use iconv(3) to convert the UTF-8 encoding to the local
encoding.

bye
        michael
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