UTF problem?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Bernhard Herzog wrote:

> One solution would be to use GTK 1.3 on Unix as well, but 1.3 is an
> unstable development version.

I'd vote for this way.  Getting character conversion right is a
tough and painful business and given that OpenPGP specifies the use
of UTF-8 for all things (except for the content of course).  Getting
GPA rweally stable will take some time and by that time GTK+ 1.3.
may be stable enough.  Frankly, I thing that 1.3 is currently stable
enough for our stuff.

The other solution would be to do the UTF-8 conversion in
gpapa/gpgme but then we need a way to set the character page used. I
know that I can hack this into gpgme quite fast but it will be a
hack and gpgme should not do it.  So we better go the UTF-8 way for
now and decide later which GTK version we are going to use for Unix.

   Werner
   

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