> Sarcasm aside, if people are using Shift-JIS/KOI8R/RU in translations, > those strings WILL get fed into UTF-8 string functions and stuff will > break. We use UTF-8 here, in GNOME-land, right?
If the gnome libraries have built in UTF-8 assumptions yes. But the rest of the system will work just fine. No idea what other desktops would do but I guess they'd be fine too except XFce > (i.e. the other way) is doable though. But I don't see the point other > than to satisfy your obsession with obsolete character sets from the > 60's. I think mean "current standards from the 21st century". That being ANSI C, Single Unix Specification, and the like. I see your point about the need to have both kinds of quoting, so the translation work is indeed a tiny bit harder > If someone could actually speak out and say what it breaks, we could > actually get somewhere with this debate. So far I hear no credible > opposition. Thats because you have your fingers in your ears and don't want to listen. Consider a career in politics instead. Alan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
