[ardour-dev] Patch: gtk2_ardour localization on non-UTF8-systems

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 12:32 +0100, Sebastian Arnold wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this patch should fix the problem with special chars showing as ? and
> menus disappearing in the ardour2 translation on systems having a
> non-UTF8 locale setting. (for example de_DE instead of de_DE.UTF-8 as
> mentioned recently in the web forum). This will solve bug #0001429.
> 
> This patch adds bind_textdomain_codeset in order to read the
> UTF8-encoded translation file as UTF8 regardless of the system's locale
> setting. Compiled and worked on my box with Beta11.1 and today's(?) svn
> version 1345. Could please check someone else if this is working?
> 
> This is my first patch to ardour, so I hope everything is ok this way,
> tell me if it is not. Thanks!

marvellous! thank you very much for getting to the bottom of this issue.
patch applied to my code, and in svn.

--p