Re: gtk_init_with_args behavior

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

You should make another version for only Windows, I think that it's better!

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2018, tito-wolit wrote:
>
> On 21/05/2018 01:27, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > gtk_init_with_args is still useful in my case: it automatically screens
> > > out any command-line arguments that are just option flags or parameters,
> > > via the GOptionEntry mechanism, leaving only a filename argument to which
> > > my program has to respond (but which may be broken in plain argv).
> > > Fortunately, it works fine after conversion via g_utf16_to_utf8. So my
> > > workflow is:
> > >
> > > GetCommandLineW
> > > CommandLineToArgvW
> > > convert array of UTF-16 strings to UTF-8
> > > pass the converted array to gtk_init_with_args
> >
> > Hi,
> > I use:
> >
> > filename = g_locale_to_utf8((argv*), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> > do something with filename
> > free(filename)
> >
> > This works also on windows.
>
> Ah, but it does NOT work in the case I'm talking about, where the filename
> in question is not representable in the current Windows Code Page, because
> it contains a mixture of character sets. Then the only way to get the real,
> non-mangled filename from Windows is in UTF-16 form via GetCommandLineW.
>
> The problem arises only because Windows doesn't do UTF-8, and so cannot
> pass "exotic" filenames via C's argv.
>
> Allin Cottrell
>
>
>
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