[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11286) Invalid string conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11286 >

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:

> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11286 >
>
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:40:36AM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:
> >
> > It is highly unadvised to run on non-UTF-8 locales. Please run on UTF-8
> > locales.
>
> In an UFT-8 terminal with de_DE@UTF-8 I get
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Shouldn't it be de_DE.UTF-8 ? Or just de.UTF-8 ? Which distribution do you
use? I have run the client on UTF-8 using Russian and Japanese for e.g, I
fail to see why it wouldn't work for German.

> > Also, the GTK+ 1.2 client is mostly unmaintained, 2.x will most
> > likely be better.
>
> Hhm, yes. But what to do with GTK1? A plus is it is quite good debugged,
> other than GTK2. And GTK2 has still some drawbacks in the GUI; it will take

Adding new features introduces new bugs. On the other hand, there are some
bugs present in GTK+ 1.2 that are not in GTK+ 2.x.

> some time to make it fit. To drop GTK1 now is a pity.

Which GUI drawbacks does the GTK+ 2.x client have over GTK+ 1.2?

I'm not going to maintain the GTK+ 1.2 client anymore. That library has
had development stalled, it is a dead end. Also, the GTK+ 2.x client works
on all the platforms GTK+ 1.2 did, in fact, it even works reasonably well
on Win32 (under Windows NT kernels) while GTK+ 1.2 did not.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa