Re: Filename encoding in FileChooser

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:15, Daniel Flemming wrote:
> Hmmm, that's interesting reading, and relevant, but it doesn't really
> answer my question. :) I have a FileChooserDialog set to
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE, and I read its filename with a get_filename
> method call after running it with a run method call. What I want to know
> is, what encoding is put into the resulting scalar (from the get_filename
> call)? I thought it was probably Unicode because that's what gtk uses in
> general, and also the resulting filenames kinda looked like Unicode. But I
> wanted to make sure.

these are the functions that back the stuff i suggested. 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#g-filename-to-utf8

i don't know, but from what i read and seem to remember from past
dealings with the stuff is that the filename encoding isn't anything in
particular (depends on what the system's encoding is) and these
functions help you make sense of that. once again this is all 'i thinks'
and no 'i knows.'

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