Re: [PATCH] Subversion UTF-8 internals & gettext

> --On Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:50 PM +0200 Erik Huelsmann
> <e.huelsmann@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > From the following paragraph in the gettext manual I conclude that we
> should
> > be applying the patch below to make sure our internals stay in UTF-8.
>
> I'm sort of -0 as this is one of the GNU-isms that isn't supported by most
> non-GNU gettext. Is there a real need (i.e. something is broken) that
> mandates us having this? -- justin

Not really, except that output from _() and dgettext() is passed to
svn_error_create(f). We would have to do one of two things to get consistent
errors again:
1) recode the output from (d)gettext ourselves to UTF-8
or
2) recode error text from the server to the local locale on reception.

I think that option number (2) gets messy and it will become unpredictable
which encoding is passsed along to which function.

So I'd like to either bind the codeset to tell gettext to do the recoding,
or to do it ourselves. The last option introduces one extra recoding step
(<mo-input-encoding> -> local encoding -> utf8 -> local encoding) instead of
(<mo-input-encoding> -> utf8 -> local encoding). Which could even be reduced
one more step by generating utf8 .mo files.

bye,

Erik.

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