what is the encoding of text in gtk?

["Ben Wing" <ben 666 com>]

earlier i wrote:

> hello, i'm the main author of the i18n support in XEmacs and i'm trying to fix
> up the gtk support in XEmacs to be i18n-correct.  unfortunately, i didn't
write
> the support (that was done by Bill Perry), and i don't understand gtk very
well.
> i couldn't find any documentation on how strings are encoded.  however, it
> appears from reading the source code that strings in gtk 2 are in utf-8 and
> strings in gtk 1 are in the locale-specific encoding.  is this correct?  in
all
> cases?  all api's? (e.g. gdk_*, gtk_*, gnome_*, etc.) does this include
> selection data, drag-n-drop data, etc.?  any specific weirdnesses i should
know
> about?  finally, is it correct to check gtk_major_version >= 2 to determine
> whether to use utf-8?
>
> thanks for your help.  please make sure my email is in the to: or cc: since
i'm
> not on this list.

this was addressed to gnome-i18n.  Christian Rose wrote back and said, write to
gtk-i18n instead, so that's what i'm doing.

NOTE: my mail provider chose in its inscrutable wisdom to eat or bounce all
messages between just after Christian sent the message (Monday, 4:44pm Mountain
time == 11:44pm GMT), and right now, Thursday 12:30am == 7:30am GMT.  So if you
sent anything in that interval, please resend.

thanks.

ben