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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:04:14PM +0100, joerg at britannica.bec.de wrote:
> 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.

True, but this would be a huge waste of space..

Rich