Hello World!
I have installed XFree86 4.0.3 with glibc 2.2.2. I am using hi_IN.UTF-8 locale which I
created instead of using existing en_US.UTF-8 locale in X. This hi_IN.UTF-8 locale in
X works fine with underlying hi_IN locale in C library. Now I can see Hindi text when
I set
export LANG=hi_IN.UTF-8
Now comes to my problem. I have created message files (.po files) for varius gtk
applications where message strings are stored using UTF-8 encoding. From this .po
files I generated a number of .mo files and put it in the LC_MESSAGES directory of
current locale path. Now when gettext interface reads these messages, it again
converts each byte of UTF-8 Hindi text into multibyte sequence. English text appearing
in the message remains as it is since it occupies only one byte. For example, E0 A4 95
is correct UTF-8 sequence for Unicode character U+0915. I am storing this byte
sequence in a .po file and then generate .mo file using msgfmt utility. Hex dump of
.mo file shows this sequence stored in the file. Now when I use gettext method, I get
UTF-8 sequence for each of the bytes E0, A4, and 95,
i.e., C3 A0 C2 A4 C2 95
===== ===== =====
E0 A4 95
As a result Hindi text is not displayed at all. Can someone tell me what may be the
problem? Is this the problem with glibc?
Thanks.
- Keyur.
PS : Please note that I am using proper fonts in fontset and I can see 'day of the
week' and 'month names' in Hindi in various gtk applications.
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Keyur Shroff
Staff Scientist,
National Centre for Software Technology,
Ministry of IT, Government of India,
Mumbai, India.
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