Re: Standardizing file open etc

[Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

Mixbus JohnE wrote:
> Our 'C' program uses 'open()' and the like for dealing with disk files.  This seems to work okay on Linux but 
> not so well on Windows if there are (say) Greek or Russian characters in the file path.  I'm not a Linux 
> programmer so I assume that 'open()' on Linux must be UTF-8 aware maybe??

g_filename_from_utf8()

> On Windows I'd need to use '_wopen()' in this context but that would mean having different code for Windows 
> and Linux.  Is there anything built into Glib that could help with this?  e.g. a function which can take a 
> UTF-8 encoded file path and open the file successfully, whether on Windows or Linux?  Thanks.

g_open()

Read the documentation pages surrounding the two functions I suggested 
to understand how they work on Windows.