[Qgis-developer] again on encoding problems

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks maris.
Are grass dev aware of the problem? Could we then display grass in English when on windows, for these languages?
 It seems important.
 All the best.

Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com> ha scritto:

>Hello Paolo,
>I haven't seen how QGIS GRASS plug in is built, still my 0.02 from
>GRASS side. Some time a go I investigated encoding problems in native
>GRASS on Windows (WinGRASS) and my conclusion was - it is not possible
>to fix it for GRASS 6 due to character encoding handling in Windows.
>Reason was simple - there's no single coding to cover all use cases in
>Windows (CLI has one system (OEM), GUI has it's legacy system (ANSI)
>and add to all also Unicode in more recent code). As GRASS strings
>might come in all three encodings, unless the source of string is
>known, it's impossible to convert/display string correctly.
>
>Somebody with greater QGIS part can correct me, if I'm wrong (as I
>would like to be :) ).
>
>Maris.
>
>PS. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2011-March/053874.html
>
>2012/10/24 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>> Hi all.
>> Here in the Far East the encoding is a serious problem hampering the
>use
>> of QGIS.
>> I was just pointed out a problem with the GRASS plugin on Win:
>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4547
>> and the solution the use:
>>
>http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Qgis1-5-Grass-tt3730164.html#a3730165
>> basically they set up the entire environment in EN, but this is not
>> optimal, as the translation is actually there, as we can see e.g. on
>osx
>> and of course on Linux.
>> It looks a very simple problem, anybody has an idea on how to solve
>it
>> more elegantly?
>> All the best, and thanks.
>>
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