On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: [...] > Now a question: is there a standard way to specify a list of supported > charset, that avoid spelling the list in full ? > The idea is to let menu-method specify which charset they support > with a declaration like > supported_charset=iso8859-*,utf-8
It looks like a very bad idea to me, why are you trying to be kind with poorly i18n-ed softwares? OTOH consider GNOME and KDE, their menu files (a.k.a desktop files) contain translated entries for all languages in a single file. Their generation can be performed under any UTF-8 locale, and conversion to user's charset is performed on the fly. (AFAICT since I am not using them) IMO you should focus on programs with good i18n support. Denis
