[Python-Dev] Small issues in gettext support

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> >You belive that returning a string in some unpredictable
> >encoding used by the translator is explicit? 
> 
> No. What is explicit here is that we return the bytes in
> the .mo file; and conversion of these bytes should be
> requested explicitly.
> 
> As for compatibility with GNU gettext: Older versions
> of GNU gettext did not perform any conversion, either.
> I think changing the behaviour of an existing function
> was a bad thing to do for GNU gettext, as well, and I
> don't think we should repeat that mistake.

I wasn't aware about this.

> It would be good to find out what users of Python
> gettext think about a possible change.

I'd be glad to hear from them as well. Anyone?

> Temporarily warning about this change of behaviour
> is also unacceptable. Adding another function, e.g.
> lgettext (for local charset), along with lngettext,
> ldgettext, might be another solution.

Ack. Thanks for discussing.

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