GOption encoding trouble (was Re: Glib: a Win32 discussion)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 07.04.2011 05:09, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> 2011/4/6 Kean Johnston<kean johnston gmail com>:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > WARNING: long, detailed message. If you don't care about Win32, move on.
>
> Other annoying Windows issues specific to glib:
I seriously doubt this win32 specific. It's a question of default encoding 
of the terminal, the application and last but not least the file system.
This is 'solved' on recent Linux by making all these utf8, but at least I 
remember the time of G_BROKEN_FILENAMES and G_FILENAME_ENCODING ;)

> 1. GOption fails hard for filenames which are in a language different
> than your Windows. E.g. Chinese or Russian filenames on English
> Windows. The arguments passed to main() contain "?" in place of the
> Chinese / Russian characters and that's just not enough information to
> correctly identify the file. More detail in the bug:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522131
Unfortunately none of the patches in bug #522131 fullfilled all the 
requirements. And I do no have a good idea to solve it in GLib either.
The same problem was solved application specific to Dia with 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570592

> 2. GApplication. Mentioned in the mail. This functionality is
> traditionally implemented using named mutexes and shared memory.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285110/restrict-application-to-one-instance-per-shell-session-on-windows
For me the trouble is still the desired scope of GApplication, namely how 
much IPC is really necessary. And is it supposed to be platform IPC (like 
COM on win32) or GLib specific?

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