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Bug 134478 - help charset not appropriately converted
help charset not appropriately converted
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: libgnome
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: libgnome maintainer
libgnome maintainer
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-16 00:03 UTC by mjrauhal
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4

Attachments
One line patch (386 bytes, patch)
2004-03-12 17:17 UTC, Laurent Martelli 		none Details | Review

Description mjrauhal 2004-02-16 00:03:21 UTC 
When one starts a Gnome program with the "--help" option in a non-english
non-UTF-8 locale for which there are help translations available, the help
texts for the Gnome libraries are not converted to the locale charset, even
as the help texts for some other components (notably eg. GTK+, Session
management and such) are converted. This results in a mixed-encoding help text.

If using a UTF-8 locale, all of the translated help texts show up in
UTF-8 encoding, as is fine and proper.
Comment 1 Laurent Martelli 2004-03-12 17:17:12 UTC 
Created attachment 25570 [details] [review]
One line patch
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2004-03-27 06:20:03 UTC 
Are you sure about this? The other translations should be in UTF-8 too, maybe
except popt which would have to be converted if nobody has done it already.
Comment 3 Anders Carlsson 2004-05-02 10:03:30 UTC 
The patch is not correct. The real problem lies within popt which doesn't
convert from UTF-8 to the locale charset when printing the --help message. See
bug #106549 for more information. Basically, there's not much we can do here.