Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
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. It would be good to find out what users of Python gettext think about a possible change. 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. Regards, Martin