Re: Glib: a Win32 discussion

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

On 2011-04-07 15:09, 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:
>
> 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
[snip]

A combination of GetCommandLineW and CommandLineToArgvW can get you the 
arguments as wchar_t strings which could then be converted to utf8. Is 
this just something that glib needs to provide a convenience function 
for? g_win32_get_utf8_argv() maybe?

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Tim Evans