Re: gtk_init_with_args behavior

["Lucky B.C" <lblackc13 gmail com>]

Well converting from UTF-16 to UTF-8, if you think it must be done.

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 May 2018, Miroslav Rajcic wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> Thanks, Miroslav, that sounds like what I need. Is there such a thing as a
> standard way to hook this up with gtk_init_with_args?
>
> I can imagine calling GetCommandLineW, then CommandLineToArgvW, but then?
> If you converted the UTF-16 strings to UTF-8, could you then pass the array
> to gtk_init_with_args?
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
> 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.
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