Re: Glib::filename_to_unicode bug?

[Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au>]

Brian Manning <elspicyjack gmail com> writes:
> FreeBSD's open() call
> is forgiving of improperly encoded UTF-8 for filenames.

Well, put it this way, open() has no notion of encoding and puts the
bytes in the name straight through to disk.

The problems in glib/gtk are all of its own making when it invents a
fiction about encoding in filenames and refuses to operate on names not
conforming!