Re: evince string freeze breackage

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:40 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> El miÃ, 17-08-2005 a las 19:23 +0200, Danilo Åegan escribiÃ:
> > Hi Carlos,
> > 
> > Today at 18:45, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > 
> > > My apologies, I broke the string freeze in this evince commit:
> > >
> > > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/ps/ps-document.c?r1=1.55&r2=1.56
> > 
> > Nice that you reported it yourself.  Can you now tell us why is
> > introducing these three strings
> > 
> > "Error while decompressing file\n"
> > "Cannot open file.\n"
> > "Failed to load document"
> 
> if we can't convert a filename to a utf-8 string, we prefer not to show
> that filename.

Glib has g_filename_display_name() for the purpose of converting
filenames into something that can be displayed to the user. It tries
to handle conversion failures gracefully.

Matthias