Re: 3 questions

[Todd Goyen <wettoad knighthoodofbuh org>]

On 09 Jul 2002 20:59:47 +0200
Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Todd Goyen <wettoad knighthoodofbuh org> writes:
> 
> > 1- I have a gtkfilesel widget and when i view a directory i get
> > errors like this when there is an umlauted character in the
> > filename:
> > 
> > Gtk-Message: [Invalid UTF-8] The filename "Björk - Headphones.wav"
> > couldn't be converted to UTF-8 (try setting the environment variable
> > G_BROKEN_FILENAMES): Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
> > [...]
> > What must be done to fix this?
> 
> read the error message again; it has the answer to your question.
> 
> Basically your problem is that the filenames you use are not UTF-8
> encoded (or plain ASCII). If you set the environment variable
> G_BROKEN_FILENAMES, glib will attempt to convert filenames to and from
> the native encoding of your locale.
> 

So I am using the Debian Sid packages, should they setup this environment variable for me, and if so I would think this is a bug in debian.

thanks for the help otherwise.

Todd