On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:19 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 12:20 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > If I have to use the en translation, then I have to put > > this string in the source code: > > > > The file "%s" could not be found. > > > > Then I have to run 'intltool-update en', open en.po, > > and add the translation. That's more steps, none of > > which involve make. How does make help me? > > C is hard. Unicode didn't exist in the 1970s. Get over it. > > If you want UTF-8 strings in your source code without escaping non-ASCII > chars, use C# or another modern language which supports that.
But plenty of people have been putting UTF-8 string literals in C code for some time, seemingly without problems. Regardless, the discussion seems to be more about C-the-locale, not C-the-programming-language, and whether or not it's OK to have UTF-8 in the C locale. I had mentioned that gnome-doc-utils has UTF-8 in its POT file, which Alan called a bug. All the messages in gnome-doc-utils are in XML files. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
