Re: g_filename_to/from_utf8()

[Egon Andersen <post talura dk>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 15:25, Egon Andersen wrote:
>
> > Sven Neumann wrote:
> >
> > > Egon Andersen <post talura dk> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've had some problems with g_filename_to/from_utf8().
> > >
> > > The encoding of the returned string depends on the encoding of
> > > your locale but only if you have the environment variable
> > > G_BROKEN_FILENAMES set.
> >
> > Okay, this gave me some info about why the platforms behaves like they do.
> > It seems strange that G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is not set on RH7.3, but it is 
> > set to 1 on RH9... and apparently it should have been the opposite!
> > Do this really mean that I can't rely on the default setup on neither 
> > RH7.3 nor RH9 or other Linux distros?
> > (I haven't done any manual changes around G_BROKEN_FILENAMES.)
> > I thought (hoped?) the idea was to make it easier to make portable 
> > applications ;-)
>
>
> If G_BROKEN_FILENAMES is set, then the encoding if
> g_filename_to/from_utf8 is the encoding of your locale. The default
> locales on RH9 are UTF-8 locales, but you apparently have a different
> setting.

On RH7:
locale gives
LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
LC_ALL=

and env gives no G_BROKEN_FILENAMES

On RH9:
locale gives
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_DK.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

and env gives G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1

So it seems that my locales should be okay, but not the G_BROKEN_FILENAMES


Are there anything else than the locale/language setup that could cause 
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES to be erroneous?

(And actually the machine with RH9 is installed with a minimum of 
changes of default settings, simply as one of its purposes is to have a 
'clean' reference to test programs on.)

Best regards
Egon Andersen