Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: | | > Something that is not very clear to me is whether we are going to | > force gettext to produce utf-8 always. What if the user's locale is | > iso-8859-1? In this case, it seems to me that the debug info output to | > console should be in latin1, shouldn't they? | | Yes. It is not clear to me how exactly the gettext machinery works, I have | been happy to simply use _() and get translated strings. I think I would | prefer for now to ignore the locale and output everything in utf8 to the | console. Once we sorted out the internal encoding mess we probably have a | clearer picture how console output can be done with the correct locale.
Using the correct locale for console will be easy. Internally we use unidode, when outputting to console we just convert that to the locale (norm) found in LANG etc. (In my case of LANG=en_US.UTF-8 that would be UTF-8.) We we should focus on in-lyx changes first. -- Lgb