Re: [gtkmm] UTF8 filenames? (Was One thing we didn't really discuss: ustring vs string)

[Michael Babcock <mbabcock la creatureshop henson com>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 18:02, Michael Babcock wrote:
>
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > At the moment we use std::string in FileSelection::get_filename().
> > > I seem to remember Daniel dealing with this thoroughly and making some
> > > appropriate decision, but this doesn't mean much to me:
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtkfileselection.html#gtk-file-selection-get-filename
> > >
> > > Please discuss.
> >
> > Okay, as long as std::string can contain a UTF8 string (and I see no 
> > reason why it can't, it can store all 8-bit characters), this should be 
> > fine. That page seems to be implying that the filename is in another 
> > encoding (perhaps based on the global system locale) which you should 
> > then convert to UTF8 with g_filename_to_utf8. However the filename could 
> > also already be in UTF8 of course, in which case that conversion should 
> > still work and do nothing. In my opinion global Unix locales are to be 
> > worked around, not used, and the only sane ones use utf8, but that's 
> > another subject.
>
>
> This doesn't mean much to me.

Basically I'm just agreeing that the current gtkmm API should be fine. I 
just wanted to be clear that filenames can be UTF8.


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