Re: utf-16 and glib

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

No one's converting the GTK+ stack away from UTF-8.  Don't let all the talk
intimidate you.

behdad

Thomas Stover wrote:
> Please, please, please don't switch to UTF-16. To me gtk is about
> getting to use technologies that are "solid", "real", "fun", and
> "effective". Principally, that means C and *nix. UTF-8 is the greatest
> thing for one reason that kills all the others: solid compatibility with
> both of the above. I think gtk on 'doz is the coolest thing, and an
> extra file name conversion here and there is totally acceptable and then
> some. Siting the way other software does things just shows why gtk
> delivers so much. As an application developer, sticking with utf-8 all
> day long and not worrying about it is just awesome. Yes I do have to
> worry about it sometimes, like when I use .fred pinvoke() wrappers, some
> 'doz python issues, etc., but just use the appropriate conversion
> function and move on.
> 
> ... I wonder if g_print() will deliver extended characters to the win32
> console the right way....
> ... I also wonder if you read text from a cgi form variable how you
> would even know what encoding it's in...
> ...cutting extended character text in windows and pasting it into gtk
> and having everything automatically work is fantastic btw...
> 
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