gnome-vfs and character sets

[Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger web de>]

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Hello,
I've got a question about the character sets used by gnome-vfs; 
specifically:
o) If I give gnome-vfs a file: URI, how should non-ascii characters be 
encoded? Should I give it escaped UTF-8, or unescaped UTF-8, or should I 
use the filesystem's charset?
(the function I'm most interested in in this context is 
gnome_vfs_get_file_info)

o) What character set is used for the filename member of the 
GnomeVFSFileInfo struct?

(This is of course most relevant if the filesystem's charset is not utf-8)

o) For authentication information (username, password), what character 
set should be used for non-ascii characters? UTF-8?

thanks,
-biesi