Re: Filename encoding in FileChooser

[Daniel Flemming <danflemming mac com>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, muppet wrote:

> 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.
>
> have you actually run into any problems, or are you just looking for
> what's the right thing up front?

No problems, not yet. I'm actually kinda hoping it's Unicode; it would
make a Certain Idea I had easier to implement, maybe.

> gtk_file_chooser_get_file_name() returns the result of
> gtk_file_system_path_to_filename(), which invokes a vtable method;
> choosing the GtkFileSystemUnix implementation, that function is
> gtk_file_system_unix_path_to_filename(), which does this:
>
>    static gchar *
>    gtk_file_system_unix_path_to_filename (GtkFileSystem     *file_system,
>                                      const GtkFilePath *path)
>    {
>      return g_strdup (gtk_file_path_get_string (path));
>    }
>
> based on this reading, i would expect that the result of
> gtk_file_chooser_get_filename() is in local encoding (the same as on
> your disk, not utf8).

Hmmm, except that I can enter non-ASCII characters in a GtkFileChooser,
and they appear in what appears to be a multi-character encoding.

For example: benedictine (with accents over the first two e's, as in its
proper French usage) appears as b\303\251n\303\251dictine on the disk. I
don't know Unicode, but that's clearly a multi-byte encoding. And it looks
right when it's in the dialog, and also looks right when it's appearing in
a FileChooserDialog that's opening files.
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