Hi, sorry for lating. On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:42:48 +0100 Philippe Morange <pmorange gmail com> wrote: >The application is all in English for now. >But we have people using it on Japanese computers. So they have directories >on their file system that are in Japanese. >Currently, the application is not capable of opening these directories, >because they are "invisible". I see. Before testing, I have to note that the character encodings of filename on Japanese computers are very confused. Traditionally, most Japanese UNIX systems have used EUC-JP encoding (and some of recent systems use UTF-8), so their native filename should be encoded by EUC-JP (or UTF-8). But, MS Windows for Japanese market uses Shift-JIS encoding for filename on removable devices. By attached files in E-mail, file exchanging via floppy/USB flash memories, often files & directories with Shift-JIS pathnames appear in UNIX system of EUC-JP encoding. Oops. See attached picture. The directory includes 2 files: one is encoded by EUC-JP, another is encoded by Shift-JIS. As you can see, Shift-JIS encoded filename is not displayed correctly. I suppose the problem you received from Japanese user is similar. There's no patch for gtk+-1.2.x, to fix this pathname encoding problem. gtk+-2.x has the autodetection hook that works if G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1. >I will investigate X fonts, X server, locale, gtkrc and others. >Do you know values that work for these ? It's difficult to tell howto, there's too many landmines. If you have enought sparetime, please check step-by-step discussion between I and Xyber Blue: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2005-October/msg00116.html Regards, mpsuzuki
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