ISO Latin 1 characters - unicode - UTF-8 - guile - gnome-guile - lost in translations ...

ISO Latin 1 characters - unicode - UTF-8 - guile - gnome-guile - lost in translations ...

[David Pirotte]

Hi all,

pango_layout_set_text() expects valid UTF-8 strings

so I manually write strings such as:

	"référence"	english: reference	[référence]

		which in unicode representation is

		r\u00E9f\u00E9rence

and it's ok.

But passing a guile string containing glyphs symbols for non ascii
characters does not work for all of them, for example:

	"déjà "	english: already 	[déjà]

		which in unicode representation is

		d\u00E9j\u00E0

because (I am not sure of this) the glyph reprensentation contains
a #\space


Any hint idea how I could at least temporarily solve my problem?

Thanks
David

ps:	is there any hope that guile handles internationalisation
	in its core modules some time soon?


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Re: ISO Latin 1 characters - unicode - UTF-8 - guile - gnome-guile - lost in translations ...

[Kevin Ryde]

David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> writes:
>
> ps:	is there any hope that guile handles internationalisation
> 	in its core modules some time soon?

The cvs has gettext now.  I've been spawning the "locale" program
(which is posix standard) to get at decimal point and date/time
formats.  It might be nice to get that directly using nl_langinfo or
localeconv, or both.


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Re: ISO Latin 1 characters - unicode - UTF-8 - guile - gnome-guile - lost in translations ...

[Marius Vollmer]

David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> writes:

> But passing a guile string containing glyphs symbols for non ascii
> characters does not work for all of them,

What happens?

> ps:	is there any hope that guile handles internationalisation
> 	in its core modules some time soon?

Yes, but probably not very soon.  We hope to have proper Unicode
support somewhen after 1.8 is released...

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