RE: Problems using/understanding drag-and-drop.

["Ethan Baldridge" <ethan superiordocumentservices com>]

To fix 1, you need to use Unicode strings (or if the filesystem is written with a specific ISO character 
page, you have to find out which one, I think - maybe they automatically remap to Unicode, not sure). Your 
filesystem is 99+% going to be UTF-8 aware. English works fine for you because ISO-8859-1 maps to the first 
page of UTF-8 anyway (this is intentional). But everything else is going to look like it was written to a 
Windows box.

I'm not sure about number 2... you may have to parse the string to change it.


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Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:55 PM
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Subject: Problems using/understanding drag-and-drop.


Hi,

In my app I want the user to drag-n-drop files from nautilus, then the application should open them. I am 
using as Targets:
1. STRING
2. text/plain

Then when the drag_data_received() signal is emitted, I use the get_text()  method on the SelectionData to 
get the text.
Everything works fine but I have 2 problems:
1. non-english filenames(glib::ustrings) output garbled content
2. spaces in the filename are represented as "%20"

Obviously this is a charset encoding problem. But I can't find a way to deal with it. Any ideas?

Sidenote: I actually pass the filename string to gstreamer but it errors. Also I use gtkmm and C++, but I 
think C/GTK guys will be able to help me too. Thanks in advance.

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