Re: utf-16 and glib

[Thomas Stover <thomas wsinnovations com>]

Please, please, please don't switch to UTF-16. To me gtk is about 
getting to use technologies that are "solid", "real", "fun", and 
"effective". Principally, that means C and *nix. UTF-8 is the greatest 
thing for one reason that kills all the others: solid compatibility with 
both of the above. I think gtk on 'doz is the coolest thing, and an 
extra file name conversion here and there is totally acceptable and then 
some. Siting the way other software does things just shows why gtk 
delivers so much. As an application developer, sticking with utf-8 all 
day long and not worrying about it is just awesome. Yes I do have to 
worry about it sometimes, like when I use .fred pinvoke() wrappers, some 
'doz python issues, etc., but just use the appropriate conversion 
function and move on.

... I wonder if g_print() will deliver extended characters to the win32 
console the right way....
... I also wonder if you read text from a cgi form variable how you 
would even know what encoding it's in...
...cutting extended character text in windows and pasting it into gtk 
and having everything automatically work is fantastic btw...