Re: g_getenv() encoding on Windows

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali juiblex co uk>]

On 31/12/04 12:00:38, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Anybody object to this change?

I've got no objection from an ABI point of view since I haven't built  
2.6.0 yet anyway.

I'd like to ask more about the motivation, however. As I undertand it,  
the point of switching to UTF-8 for filenames is that MS-Windows stores  
these in unicode internally rather than in the system codepage so you  
can run into problems if the filename can't be encoded in the system  
codepage.

Is the same true for environment variables? I read what appears to be  
the relevant documentation in msdn:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__environ.2c_._wenviron.asp

but I wasn't much the wiser :-)

If environment variables are stored in unicode, then I agree that we  
need to use UTF-8, but if they are stored in the system codepage then  
I'd be more hesitant.

Cheers,

Ali.