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

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@xxxxxxxxx>]

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+
Good work.

> 2.0 all strings should be stored as UTF-8.
Yes.

> 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.
We can do that without much problem.

> There is one remaining problem: some nation files include strings in
> ISO-8859-1(latin1) encoding. Either we strip them to ASCII form or store
> them as UTF-8 with the inconvenience this will create in platforms without
I vote for store them as UTF-8.

> gettext(). How well do Win32 and Amiga cope with UTF-8?
Are you kidding? Win32 has a far better Unicode support than Linux,
*bsd or what else. I don't know about amiga, but we could link/include
libunicode.

bye
        michael

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