Re: gtk-charset questions

[Ed Catmur <ed catmur co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:31 +0100, rk-list koebler com wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've got a few questions about which charset gtk uses.
> i.e. string = entry.get_text() returns a string, and I would like
> to know the charset of the string:
>
> - which charset does "string" use?
>   is this locale-dependent?
>   does it also depend on something else?
>
> - is this the same in C/gtk and python/pygtk?
>
> - I've tested this with pygtk, and I always got UTF-8-encoded
>   strings, no matter what locale I used (I tested: LANG=C,
>   LANG=de_DE.iso88591 and LANG=en_US.utf8).
>   can I rely on this? so does get_text() in pygtk always
>   return utf-8-strings?
>
> unfortunately I didn't find anything about this in the documentation,
> so I hope you can help me.

Yes, GTK+ uses UTF-8 internally everywhere.  See FAQ 1.8 "How do I use
non-ASCII characters in GTK+ programs ?",
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html#id2531324

Ed