Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

[Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:02:02 +0100
Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
> > >> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>  Is there any reason?
> > >>>
> > >> I don't know. If I had to guess, it probably wasn't seen as worth
> > >> maintaining. After all none of the other features of GLib have random
> > >> --disable-feature options. Searching in bugzilla might find related
> > >> bug discussion.
> > > 
> > > And also because glib provides i18n for applications and libraries above
> > > it, and convenience functions for UTF-8, etc. that wouldn't be available
> > > on Unix systems without NLS support.
> > 
> > Disabling NLS support might be quite useful for people on embedded 
> > systems and/or people who are using glib for only a part of their 
> > application and use a different translation framework.
> 
> And it means that a lot of convenience functions for UTF-8 handling
> wouldn't work.

Just FYI, that's not true. The GLib Unicode code does not require
gettext. Unicode support and message translation support are two
entirely different matters.

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@xxxxxxxxxx>

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