Re: gnome-vfs and character sets

[Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger web de>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 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)
>
> You should use the filesystems charset (which is undefined, filenames
> are bytestrings). 

Cool. Thank you, this is actually what works better for me.
I can (should?) escape non-ascii characters though, right? (in URIs)

> > o) What character set is used for the filename member of the 
> > GnomeVFSFileInfo struct?
>
> None. Its a byte string (without \0 or / in) corresponding to the
> filename bytestring on the disk.

What if this fileinfo does not correspond to a local file (for example, 
a smb: file)?

> > o) For authentication information (username, password), what character 
> > set should be used for non-ascii characters? UTF-8?
>
> At the moment everything uses UTF-8 here, although I dunno if anything
> does anything with this behind the scenes. I think we just pass on the
> strings. However, username/password rarely use > 127 characters i guess,
> and for the case they do, lets bloody hope they use utf8. :)

Hmm, at least HTTP requires special dealing with non-ascii 
authentication information...