Re: gtk_init_with_args behavior

[Miroslav Rajcic <miroslav rajcic inet hr>]

I've been doing it exactly like that in my own program, first getting 
the UTF-16 from Windows API, then converting to UTF-8 using g_utf16_to_utf8.

IMO, hooking this with gtk_init_with_args is not needed, GTK can use the 
standard args of the program, passed via "main()" function parameters,

but you will bypass that mechanism completely and use API to fetch 
UTF-16 process parameters directly from OS.

Regards,

  Miroslav

On 5/20/2018 12:36 PM, Lucky B.C wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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