[Sugar-devel] Unicode strings in translations

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Manuel Kaufmann <humitos at gmail.com> wrote:
> To get Unicode strings from gettext I had to put these lines in my
> lesssonscreen.py file:
>
> import gettext
> gettext.install('po', unicode=True)

Awright. Seems like gettext hasn't realized that it's 2012 and
defaults to using codepages.

I'd vote for gettext.install('po', unicode=True) everywhere. All Sugar
builds have been in the utf-8 era, so this should work even in
extremely old builds.




m
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