Re: [Gnumed-devel] screenshots wx2.5.2

[Ian Haywood]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 06:20:46PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> Karsten enlighted me to set LANG=en to avoid unicode problems
This is bad.

It seems what is happening is gettext is returning an iso-latin-1
string, as a normal Python string, the wxpython code
is doing .decode ('ascii'), which chokes on the umlaut.

The answer is to first do string.decode ('latin_1'), which
returns a Unicode string that wxPython-unicode can handle.

How can we do this while keeping our code 2.4/2.5 agnostic?
Perhaps a function in gmI18N.py : switch_to_unicode (), called
by GUI code when it realises its running on a unicode system,
and makes _ () return unicode strings by either configuring
gettext to use Unicode or adding a wrapper to _ ()
to call .decode ('latin_1')
The first is better, b/c the latterlocks us to latin-1 of course,
but I don't know if that means the translations have to be redone in
Unicode.
(I confess I don't know much about gettext)

It's worth pointing out this has come to a head because
distros aren't including 2.4 anymore.

Ian

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