Re: gtk_init_with_args behavior

[Miroslav Rajcic <miroslav rajcic inet hr>]

Hi Allin,

on Windows, it is advisable to use an API to get the command line 
parameters as UTF-16,  so you don't lose the letters "foreign" to your 
code page.

See "CommandLineToArgvW" for more info:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb776391(v=vs.85).aspx

Regards,

  Miroslav

On 5/19/2018 12:06 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I'm building an application using gtk-2.24.32 for use on MS Windows, 
> and have run into a problem which may be associated with my call to
> gtk_init_with_args().
>
> I wonder whether, besides handling the arguments detailed in the
> (GOptionEntry *) argument to this function, gtk "translates" in some 
> way the remaining program arguments? If so, this can be problematic.
>
> Here's the case in point: a Greek Windows user, running Windows in 
> Engish, has named a Desktop subdirectory "test" in Greek (that is, 
> tau-epsilon-sigma-tau). In the Windows file manager he selects a file 
> in this subdirectory that's associated via the registry with my 
> program and double-clicks on it. What my program actually gets as a 
> residual argument, after calling gtk_init_with_args(), is the full 
> path to this file, but with the Greek-letter sequence replaced by 
> "test" -- and therefore, of course, the file cannot be opened.
>
> I'm not sure if it's Windows itself that is making this substitution 
> or gtk. I'd be grateful if anyone could shed any light on the matter.