> I wrote my first linux GUI app using GTK+, which seems to be a very > nice tool.
Well, GTK+ is not a "tool" but a library, also called a "tooolkit", so I wonder whether what you actually have been using some higher level GUI application or "toolt" to write code that uses GTK+? Anyway, let's assume that was just an accidental use of the wrong word. > One question I had is: how can I set the language for non-unicode text in my >application? That question doesn't really make sense, as 1) GTK+ accepts only Unicode text (in particular, encoded as UTF-8) 2) Even if text is in Unicode it needs language-dependeng handling (especially for text in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, where language-specific fonts should be used even if the code points for the ideographs are unified). Anyway, as such it isn't really GTK+ that needs to know the language of some text, but Pango. (Another library, that GTK+ uses to layout text.) See for instance http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html . > I tried to use iconv(), but did not work out. The iconv_open call returned >error ENOENT (2). Not sure > if i am in the correct direction. Well, if you suspect that iconv() is what you need, then probably indeed it is. How to use iconv() is not really a GTK+ question, you just need to read its documentation carefully. Note that iconv() is not related to *languages* as such, but codesets and encodings. (But yeah, many codesets and encodings are specifically used for one language in one country, or a closely related group of languages.) Also note that GLib has a convenience API on top of iconv() to make it a bit friendlier to use, see http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html . I suspect you need to give us more details of what your problem actually is. Where do the strings come from that you tried to use iconv() on? Do you know what language they are? Do you know what codeset and encoding they are? What do you need to do with them? --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
