Re: File name encoding and GTK ABI compatibility on Win32

[John Ehresman <jpe wingide com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>  > Shouldn't g_locale_from_utf8 return utf8 because utf8 is now the file 
>  > system encoding on win32?
>
> No, but g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() now reduce to the equivalent of
> strndup() on Win32.

Does this mean that code converting from utf8 to GLib's filesystem 
encoding needs to use g_filename_{to,from}_utf8 to work on both win32 
and *nix?  Would it be possible to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING 
environment variable to 'utf8' as well?

Thanks,

John