Re: GIOChannel and german umlauts

[Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman code-monkey de>]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:57:50PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > In my app, I'm not setting a encoding for the GIOChannel, i.e. encoding
> > is NULL. Now when I'm sending or receiving text that contains special
> > characters such as german umlauts, my application segfaults when
> > LC_CTYPE is not set to a locale that supports those characters:
> > e.g., when running with LC_CTYPE=de_DE it's working fine while running
> > with LC_CTYPE=POSIX will crash.
> > Setting the GIOChannels encoding to ISO-8859-1 doesn't help either.
>
> "Doens't help" in what sense? It should convert the ISO-8859-1 
> to UTF-8. Which is genererally what you'd want in a GTK+-2.0 app.
> (But remember, that you're users won't all be using ISO-8859-1)
>
> Note that the default for GIOChannel is UTF-8, if you want no
> conversion, you need to set the explicitely.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't really know what effect
...set_encoding() has. I'm now converting to the currently used
charset and everything is working great :)

Regards,
        Tilman