[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GTK2 support

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:47:31PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> Moreover, GNU libc and GNU gettext include catgets support too, so it
> will be available on any GNU system. Aside from that, if a system
> doesn't have catgets it will probably not have gettext either since
> the only implementation of gettext (AFAIK) is the GNU one.

Just for the archive, libintl has an independent implementation in
NetBSD/citrus. It doesn't implement e.g. msgfmt though, since it is
binary compatible.

> It doesn't. It's purely a string lookup. The intent of the designers
> was that each locale/lang has exactly one character encoding, which is
> obviously stupid. However it works just as well to use it with UTF-8
> and do the conversion via iconv in mp_msg.

Actually, it is not that stupid. Nothing prevents a system from having
multiple message catalogs for the various encodings. Just using UTF-8
makes as much sense though.

Joerg