Gtk-1 does not support UTF8. -derek
Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please discuss this *always* on the mailing list, never only with > individual developers. > > If you start to work on the gnucash translation, you might want to read > the instruction from http://www.gnucash.org/trans/TRANSLATION_HOWTO , > which are also included in the source package in doc/TRANSLATION_HOWTO. > > But apart from that I have no idea about what might be wrong in your > setup. Sorry for that. Maybe someone else on the mailinglist? > > Christian > > Pawan Chitrakar schrieb: >> yes i am using gnome 1.8.x but the encoding i defined is utf-8 both >> in po file and lang env >> so i guess this is not yet supported in GTK1. >> so when can i have the newest version... >> thank you >> On 7/21/05, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Dear Pawan, >>> >>>you didn't say which version of gnucash you used, but I guess you are >>>talking about a 1.8.x-Version. The point is that the 1.8.x series is >>>still gtk1-based, which can be a problem for non-ascii character sets. >>>In that case, you need to make sure manually that your encoding of the >>>strings in the po file matches exactly the character encoding that is >>>set in your environment. If e.g. your newly translated po file has >>>"Content-Type: text/plain, charset=ISO-8859-1" set in its header, but >>>your LANG environment variable has an utf-8 locale set (e.g. >>>LANG=en_GB.UTF-8), then all non-ascii characters will show as something >>>weird or maybe as boxes. >>> >>>This will change completely in the gnome2 development branch where >>>everything will be utf-8. >>> >>>For now (1.8.x series), you need to make sure >>>1. your po file needs to be in an encoding that works with your >>>devanagari characters >>>2. the "Content-Type: " in the header of the po file needs to be set to >>>that encoding, too >>>3. before starting gnucash, you need to set LANG into the very same >>>encoding. >>> >>>Christian >>> >>>Pawan Chitrakar schrieb: >>> >>>>Dear list, >>>> >>>>i am working on gnucash translation to nepali language >>>> >>>>when i test the gnucash with the translation string shows with boxes >>>>and no devanagari character shows up... i am using hoary ubuntu linux >>>> >>>>please advice what went wrong >>>> >>>>thanks in advance >>>> >>>>pawan >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>gnucash-devel mailing list >>>>[email protected] >>>>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
