To: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: Problems using the new view widget
From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat at labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:37:23 +0200
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 Guesdon's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:32:30 +0200")
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Maxence Guesdon <maxence.guesdon at inria.fr> writes:

> Remi Vanicat wrote:
>> > > I had to change my LC_ALL to fr_FR to make it work.
>> > > Hope it will help someone in the future.
>> > 
>> > well, you could have use
>> > Glib.Convert.convert "ma lettre accentuée é" ~to_codeset: "utf-8"
>> >                      ~from_codeset: "ISO-8859-1"
>> > 
>> > but in that case, you don't look to locale...
>
> Ok, but my application then becomes very specific, doesn't it ?
>
>
>> > by the way, it best to leave LC_ALL untouched and to use LANG.
>
> Having LANG=fr_FR as not enough. I HAD to change LC_ALL :-(

Well, you have to change LC_ALL if LC_ALL is already set. Otherwise,
you should hate to. It worked here.

>  
>
> Then Sven Luther wrote:
>
>> BTW, would it not be better to have lablgtk2 call
>> Glib.Convert.locale_to_utf8 by default each time it is necessary ?
>> 
>> As ocaml don't use utf8 strings, but gtk+ apparently does.
>
> I agree. An utf8 type would prevent such runtime errors.

Yes it seem a good idea. 

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Rémi Vanicat
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