[Sugar-devel] Unicode strings in translations

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Benjamin Berg <benzea at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Disclaimer: I have not read the entire discussion.

and you've missed a bit :-)

> So, in Sugar we are mixing python unicode strings, and utf-8 encoded

No. We have been _temporarily_ mixing Python unicode UTF-8 with ASCII strings.

We used to import gtk, which had the side effect of telling Python to
assume any string constant in the code to be unicode UTF-8 instead of
ASCII.

As part of the gtk3 transition, we discovered importing gtk3 doesn't
have that side effect. But we want Python to assume string constants
to be UTF-8, so should tell it so explicitly instead of relying on
side-effects :-) -- look at the emails from dnarvaez and manuq.

Manuq - btw, I agree with upstream that this is not a GTK3/PyGI bug,
it is an improvement.


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